---
name: "Sarah Punshon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sarah-punshon"
fi1m_id: "sarah-punshon"
imdb_id: "nm2585908"
tmdb_id: 5797319
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:06:02.673894+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 Punshon

## Identity

Sarah Punshon

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sarah-punshon
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sarah-punshon
- **IMDb ID:** nm2585908
- **TMDB ID:** 5797319
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2585908/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5797319

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2585908/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5797319

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Shameless*](https://film.one/tv/shameless.md) (75)

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## Biography

Sarah Punshon is a theatre and television director. She directed an episode of the Channel 4 series *Shameless* in 2011 and has directed numerous episodes of *Doctors* (2007–2015), *EastEnders* (2007–2009) and *Emmerdale* (2008).

She trained at Cambridge University and the Royal Scottish Conservatoire, and completed placements on the Regional Theatres Young Directors Scheme at West Yorkshire Playhouse (2003–2005) and the BBC Drama Directors Academy (2006). She was a Clore Leadership Fellow in 2010/11, mentored by Sir Richard Eyre.

Punshon is founder and Artistic Director of One Tenth Human, which creates arts-science projects for young audiences. She was Artistic Director of The Dukes Lancaster from 2017 to 2019 and has directed family theatre productions including adaptations of *Peter Pan* and *The Lion Inside*.

*Sources: unitedagents.co.uk, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Shameless* (2004), Fi1m 75, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/shameless.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

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

- *Shameless* (2004), series, Director — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/tv/shameless.md)

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/sarah-punshon