Anne-Louise Sarks

Anne-Louise Sarks is Artistic Director and CEO of Melbourne Theatre Company, where her credits include adapting and directing Rebecca, for which she won a Green Room Award for Outstanding Direction, and directing My Brilliant Career, which received five Green Room Awards, as well as The Removalists, A Streetcar Named Desire, Escaped Alone and What If If Only and Bernhardt/Hamlet. Previous work with the Company includes Minnie & Liraz and The Seed. An internationally acclaimed director, writer and dramaturg, Anne-Louise’s work has been seen in Melbourne, Sydney, London, Helsinki, Mexico City, New York, Warsaw, Dublin, Auckland, Mumbai, Perth and Basel. Recent productions include Avalanche (Barbican); Our Town, Medea (Theater Basel); Stop Girl (Belvoir). Her production of Blasted at Malthouse Theatre was nominated for four Green Room Awards. Medea, co-written with Kate Mulvany, won five Sydney Theatre Awards including Best Direction. It was also awarded an AWGIE for Best Stage Play. Anne-Louise was previously Artistic Director of the Lyric Ensemble at the Lyric Hammersmith in London and of Melbourne independent theatre company The Hayloft Project. She has been Resident Director at Belvoir, Director in Residence at Malthouse Theatre, and in 2010 she was Emerging Resident Director at Melbourne Theatre Company.