Sarah Hughes is Alan Ayckbourn’s casting director. She has also freelanced extensively for the BBC. Other theatre work includes plays for the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Birmingham Rep, and Theatre Royal Northampton, and six projects for Frantic Assembly, including LOVE SONG, OTHELLO and THE BELIEVERS. In 2011/2012 she was one of four Senior Cast Co-ordinators for the London 2012 opening and closing ceremonies. She has recently cast the world premiere of Jack Thorne’s THE SOLID LIFE OF SUGAR WATER for Graeae, Peter Gill’s AS GOOD A TIME AS ANY for the Print Room, and Alan Ayckbourn’s latest play HERO’S WELCOME.