Sarah is an award-nominated writer and performer. She is an alumni of the Lyric Hammersmith’s Writers’ Lab, Soho Theatre Writers’ Lab, HighTide Writers’ Academy, Criterion New Writing Programme, and RADA Advances in Script Writing.
Sarah was one of ten young writers selected to work with The Royal Court theatre on their Open Court Festival 2016. Her audio play ‘The Flower Show’ ran for three weeks at The Royal Court during July 2016, and her play ‘The Night Tella’ was presented in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, as part of the festival. She performed ‘The Night Tella’.
Sarah’s one woman play ‘Tumble Tuck’, in which she starred, was placed highly on the Soho Theatre’s Verity Bargate 2015 Award list. It was presented by The Old Vic New Voices at Wilderness Festival in August 2016.
Then, it was performed at the Soho Theatre in the Soho Rising season during October 2016. BackHere! Theatre produced ‘Tumble Tuck’ for The Underbelly in Edinburgh 2017. It transferred to The King’s Head Theatre in April 2018 as the headline show of their ‘Who Runs The World?’ festival and was nominated for an Off West End Award nomination for Best Performance Piece.
Sarah’s play ‘Lucy Light’ ran at the Theatre N16 for three weeks to critical acclaim in September 2017. Milroyd Productions produced a new version of the same play at VAULT Festival 2019, also to rave reviews.
Sarah’s one-woman show ‘4’ was presented by Bruised Sky Productions at Park Theatre in 2022. In September 2022, she was made an Associate Artist of Bruised Sky Productions.
Sarah’s plays ‘Tumble Tuck’, ‘Lucy Light’, ‘4’ and ‘The Night Tella’ are all published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. Sarah’s play ‘PA(RENTAL)’ received a rehearsed reading in the West End, London in 2024.
Sarah was 1 of 12 writers (out of 3000 applicants) on the 2019 Channel 4 Screenwriting programme led by Philip Shelley. In the same year, she was nominated Edinburgh TV Festival New Voice Award in the Stage to Screen category for ‘Tumble Tuck’.
Sarah’s feature film adaptation of her play ‘Lucy Light’ placed as a quarter finalist in the international Shore Scripts 2020 Feature Film competition and was shortlisted for the Screen & Story 2021 Film Festival Screenplay competition.
Her feature length film ‘Project Baby’ was commissioned by Reel One Entertainment in 2021. It wrapped in the United States in the summer of 2022, and was directed by Haylie Duff. It was released in Europe and Canada in 2023 and is available to watch on Amazon Prime.
Her short film ‘SCOFFED‘ – commissioned and developed by ManChild Films – was released in Spring 2023 and was officially selected for and/or placed as a Semi Finalist in several international short film competitions.
In 2025, Sarah was shortlisted for Pentabus Theatre Company’s 2026 Jerwood Writer in Residence. In the same year, out of nearly 6000 scripts, Sarah’s script PA(RENTAL) was shortlisted for the BBC Scripted programme. She completed the BBC Voices programme in 2026.
Sarah is a member of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain.