Sam Haren Director & Co-creator

Sam graduated from the directing course of the Flinders University Drama Centre in 2000. He is the Artistic Director of The Border Project and has directed/co-directed all of the company's work. His directing credits with The Border Project include Escape from Peligro Island (Windmill Theatre & Come Out 2011), Vs Macbeth (Adelaide Festival 2010 & Sydney Theatre Company) Disappearance (iNSPACE 2008), Trouble on Planet Earth (Adelaide Fringe 2008), Highway Rock 'n' Roll Disaster (Adelaide Fringe 2006, iNSPACE 2007, Sydney Theatre Company 2008), Please Go Hop! with Ingrid Voorendt (Adelaide Fringe 2004 & Next Wave 2004), The War (Gorge '03 at the AFCT) and Despoiled Shore Medeamaterial Landscape with Argonauts. For Windmill Theatre Company, he has directed Plop! and Grug.

He has also directed and choreographed Theatrical Trailer for Alien 5 (ADT Ignition 2007 & 2008) and The Game is Not Over (ADT Ignition 2006), The Station/At the Statue of Venus (State Opera SA 2006), Fronteras Americanas (Kultour 2003) and with Steve Mayhew created Super Dimension Fortress One (Remote Telemetry Dialogues 2004). He is also collaborating with Larissa McGowan to create a full-length dance work, Skeleton.

He was one of three international finalists for Rolex's Mentor and Protégé Initiative for a mentorship with Julie Taymor in 2006, travelling to New York to meet with her. Sam was awarded the Dame Ruby Litchfield Scholarship for 2002 and undertook a three-month internship with The Wooster Group in New York, working on their production of To You, The Birdie! He also observed Forced Entertainment's research and development of The Travels in the UK. He has worked with Leigh Warren and Dancers and the Australian Dance Theatre as a dramaturg and researcher.