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Sarah Townsend is a British Emmy Award-nominated producer, director, composer, and screenwriter. Townsend has worked across all genres, starting off in theatre and stage shows, moving into music production and then moving into feature and documentary film-making. In 2010 she received an Emmy nomination for her work on ''Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story'' for best Outstanding Nonfiction Special. Townsend splits her time between the United Kingdom and Los Angeles. ==Early career== Townsend went on to run Oxmad Theatre Company, while working backstage on West End shows to fund herself. While living in Edinburgh, she then set up the GreyFriars Kirk House,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Greyfriars Kirk House )〕 an ex-soup kitchen which she turned into a venue for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. During the festival, Townsend ran shows including Bertolt Brecht's ''A Respectable Wedding'' and Company of Wolves by Polka TC,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Polka Theatre - World-class theatre for children )〕 for 20 theatre companies from across the globe. It was in Edinburgh where she "discovered" a number of stand-up comedians including Ardal O'Hanlon (star of the hit Irish sitcom Father Ted) who made his UK debut at the venue. Townsend also premiered Eddie Izzard's first solo standup show where he received his prestigious Perrier Award nomination. For a brief period of time, Townsend promoted Izzard along with Jenny Eclair.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sarah Townsend - Director & Producer )〕 Townsend then used the profits she earned to produce her own plays, which she toured around the UK and Ireland including a commedia version of Molière's 'Medecin Malgre Lui' and a punk version of Bulgakov's 'Molière.' It was on the set of 'Molière.' that she met Laurence Olivier Award-winning English actress, Noma Dumezweni who would go on to become the focus of her upcoming 2015 short documentary, 'Noma (Forgiving Apartheid)'〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Noma: Forgiving Apartheid (2015) )〕 which recently premiered at the 2015 Foyle Film Festival. 〔http://www.derryjournal.com/what-s-on/cinema/foyle-film-festival-emmy-nominated-local-film-maker-to-screen-remarkable-documentary-1-7072086〕 In the early nineties, Townsend took over the running the Time Out Street Entertainers Festival and mounted the World Street Fest in Covent Garden, bringing together performers from across the globe. As Townsend became more involved in the UK comedy scene, she opened a comedy club called "The Swan" in south London and ran the Soho comedy club "Raging Bull", which was hosted regularly by Eddie Izzard for several years and featured a number of comedians during the period, including Jerry Sadowitz, Steve Coogan, Patrick Marber and Jo Brand.〔 Following "Raging Bull", Townsend set up the Halyon Club, in Soho in early 2000. With support from local jazz musicians, particularly Mercury award winning composer and musician Guy Barker, Halyon became a music, art and film club which held regular events for both up-and-coming and established artists. The club attracted an extraordinarily eclectic audience, from Terry Gilliam to Mo Mowlam, Norman Cook (Fat Boy Slim) to Alan Rickman and hundreds of others in between. She closed it in 2003 due to other work commitments. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sarah Townsend」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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