Faculty Bios

Sarah Pia Anderson

Directing

Sarah Pia Anderson is by profession a director of theatre, film, and television. Professor Anderson is considered to be one of the top women directors of English-language drama. She has directed at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal National Theatre, Abbey Theatre (Dublin), Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh), on Broadway, and The Shakespeare Theater at the Folger (Washington, DC). In Spring 1994, she directed Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, starring Kelley McGillis, for Broadway's Roundabout Theatre.

Professor Anderson also directs for film and television. Work includes (Emmy Award winning television series) Prime Suspect: Inner Circles (starring Helen Mirren) for Granada Television in Britain, and in the United States, for ABC Network Television, Nothing Sacred: Roman Catholic Holiday (Winner of the Peabody Award for Television Drama Series, and a Prism Award for Directing). Also in the United States, episodes of (Emmy award winning dramas) ER, Ally McBeal, Grey’s Anatomy and Huff (starring Hank Azaria, Oliver Platt and Blythe Danner). And most recently, she directed episodes of (Golden Globe winner) UGLY BETTY (Starring Salma Hayek and America Ferrera), and (Golden Globe nominated) BIG LOVE for HBO (Starring Bill Paxton, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Cloe Sevigny).

Additional information:  sarahpiaanderson.com