Saffron Burrows
(Saffron Burrows, photo courtesy of Lincoln Center Theater)
London theater includes Neil LaBute’s Some Girls (world premiere, The Gielgud), Peter Whelan’s The Earthly Paradise (Almeida Theatre), Jeanette Winterson’s The PowerBook (dir. Deborah Warner; Royal National Theatre; Theatre National Du Chaillot, Paris; Teatro Madrid, Rome) and Tamsin Oglesby’s Two Lips Indifferent Red (Bush Theatre). Other theater includes Melissa James Gibson’s This (Kirk Douglas Theatre, LA), Jackie Kennedy in Tom Dugan’s one-woman play Jackie Unveiled (Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts). Films include the upcoming Baghead, Canary Black and The Morrigan; also starred in such films as The Bank Job; Troy; The Guitar; Timecode; Miss Julie; Gangster No. 1; Circle of Friends and Welcome II The Terrordome. Recent TV includes You and Westworld; as well as the Golden Globe-winning comedy Mozart in the Jungle; Boston Legal; Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.; Law & Order: Criminal Intent; and Dennis Potter’s Karaoke. Burrows made her directorial debut with the short film Michael & Indigo (part of the anthology feature Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men, Best Film Award at the Cannes Independent Film Festival) and directed the short film She Came to Me. As a producer, Burrows is in post-production on Ngozi Onwurah’s Neighborhood Alert. Advocate for Greenpeace & The Circle, Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.