Sunday Arts Magazine

15 Nov 2021

Sonya Suares

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Sonya is a multidisciplinary performer, dramaturg, director, producer and arts activist; she has worked across film, television and theatre since her screen debut at 16. In 2012, she founded acclaimed Sondheim repertory company Watch This, realising a body of work that includes Assassins, Pacific Overtures, Company, Merrily We Roll Along, A Little Night Music and Sunday in the Park with George and has accrued a total of 21 Green Room Award nominations/ 2 wins. She’s also been nominated for her work as an actor in MTC’s Melbourne Talam and Polyglot Theatre & Papermoon Puppet Theatre’s immersive sensation, Cerita Anak. She shares a nomination for Best Direction of a Musical with Dean Drieberg for Sunday in the Park with George (2019) and for the realisation of the digital documentary series, The Art of Making Art (2020). In 2021, amongst several collaborations and developments, she is working with composer/ lyricist Vidya Makan and Hayes Theatre Co on The Lucky Country; The People on Cancel Bigots; and co-directing Into the Woods with Melanie Hillman for Watch This.

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