---
name: "Sarah Frankcom"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sarah-frankcom"
fi1m_id: "sarah-frankcom"
imdb_id: "nm6896200"
tmdb_id: 1483325
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T07:47:13.046329+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Sarah Frankcom

## Identity

Sarah Frankcom

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sarah-frankcom
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sarah-frankcom
- **IMDb ID:** nm6896200
- **TMDB ID:** 1483325
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6896200/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1483325

Director. Born in Sheffield.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6896200/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1483325

## Biography

Sarah Frankcom is an English theatre director. She served as artistic director of the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester from 2008 to 2019, becoming sole artistic director in 2014, and was appointed director of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) in 2019.

Frankcom directed the episode 'Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet' for the 2020 BBC series *Alan Bennett's Talking Heads*. Her stage work includes a 2015 production of *Hamlet* at the Royal Exchange and *Our Town*, for which she received the UK Theatre Award for best director in 2018. She previously worked as literary manager at the Royal Exchange from 2000 and as a drama teacher.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, britishtheatreguide.info.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Alan Bennett's Talking Heads* (2020), Fi1m 75, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/alan-bennetts-talking-heads.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Alan Bennett's Talking Heads* (2020), series, Director — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/tv/alan-bennetts-talking-heads.md)
- *Hamlet* (2015), Director

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