Based in Walyalup / Fremantle, Western Australia, Sarah is an award-winning independent performer, producer and multidisciplinary artist working across theatre, film and community arts.
With more than 20 years of professional experience, she has performed and collaborated with leading Western Australian companies including Barking Gecko Theatre, Black Swan State Theatre Company, Spare Parts Puppet Theatre and Perth Festival.
Sarah was a lead puppeteer in the National Theatre’s globally renowned stage adaptation of War Horse and has extensive international touring experience. She has performed across North America, Japan and South Africa with The Last Great Hunt and toured throughout the UK and Europe with leading full-mask theatre company Vamos Theatre.
She is the creator of the award-winning film portraiture project Mobile Moments, which received the Fringe World Award for Community Event. In 2021 she received a Performing Arts WA (PAWA) nomination for Outstanding Performer in a Leading Role for her performance in Unheimlich (PICA).
Sarah is an advocating artist and producer who supports marginalised and vulnerable voices through immersive, informative and socially engaged creative projects.
Since 2007 she has worked extensively in community and disability arts, consistently championing accessibility and social change through artistic practice.
Following a significant disruption to her health and working capacity in 2020, Sarah has re-examined and reshaped her practice.
As an artist living with chronic illness, she is constantly evolving her practice and projects to advocate for greater accessibility, sustainability and radical care in the arts sector, developing projects that sit at the intersection of arts, health and socio-political change.
Sarah currently works part-time with the City of Fremantle as Producer of Truth-Telling programs and events, while continuing her work as a mentor and collaborator with artists living with disability.
She recently appeared in the hit web series Out of Here, and her debut mainstage production Into the Fog is currently in development with support from PICA.
Sarah was a part of the 2025 cohort of the Minderoo Artist Fund and was recently awarded Minderoo's Inaugural Georgia Malone Artist Prize in recognition of Sarah' s development of Into The Fog and for an 'artists resilience, tenacity and a courageous or innovative approach to sustaining a career in the arts'