Draft:Sallie Aprahamian

Sallie Aprahamian (born 1955) is a British theatre, television, and film director.

Her television work includes This Life (1997), The Lakes (1999), The Sins (2000), Dr Who (2018), Poldark (2019) and Fate: The Winx Saga (2022). She has received several BAFTA nominations.

Aprahamian directed her first feature film Broken Lines in 2007, co-starring Paul Bettany and Olivia Williams, which was selected for the Venice Giornate degli Autori and London Film Fesitvals in 2008.

Prior to television Aprahamian worked in theatre for ten years, directing over thirty productions of new works. Theatre companies she worked for include M6, Lancaster Playhouse, Theatre Centre, Akimbo and Women’s Theatre Group.

She was a co-founder of Plain Clothes Productions with whom she developed and directed the critically acclaimed Blue Night In The Heart Of The West by James Stock, which won the George Devine Award.