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As a director and cinematographer, my practice spans film, television, and live performance—each offering unique creative challenges and opportunities.

 

Recent highlights include working as the ACS Credit Maker DOP on Season Two of Bay of Fires (ABC, 2024), filmed in Tasmania, and serving as the Screen Australia Directors Attachment to Dir. Margie Beattie on the TV drama PLUM.

 

With over a decade in film and television, I’ve built a career as a camera assistant and camera operator across drama and comedy for Netflix, Amazon, Paramount+, Stan, SBS, and the ABC. As a director, my short films Last Night and Noli Me Tangere have screened at TEDx Sydney, Institute of Modern Art Brisbane, Powerhouse Sydney, and online with the Prototype experimental film archive.

 

In live performance, I’ve directed original screenplay adaptations for the stage, including SAFE by Todd Haynes, In a Year with 13 Moons by R.W. Fassbinder, You’ve Got Mail by Nora Ephron, and Ex Machina by Alex Garland. These works have been presented at Griffin Theatre Company, Kings Cross Theatre, Old 505 Theatre, The Blue Room Theatre, and The Old Fitz.

 

I’ve worked with Sydney Theatre Company as Video Director and Assistant Director on productions such as Grand Horizons, Strange Case of Jekyll & Hyde, and The Picture of Dorian Gray, which has toured internationally to New Zealand, the UK, and the US.​

Making and sharing stories on the sovereign land of the Gadigal peoples of the Eora Nation.

© Sarah Hadley 2025

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