Biography

Sara has designed in the region of 100 productions, for a wide variety of venues and genres.

She is currently Associate Artist at the Mercury at Colchester where she has designed 18 productions - more recently the premier of Fraser Grace's new play King David, Man of Blood; Depot, a multi-discipline site-specific production in an old Tram Station, Martin McDonagh's The Lonesome West and an acclaimed production of Journey's End.

She was Associate Designer for English Touring Theatre for 3 years, on numerous productions including the tour and West end production of Peter Gill's The York Realist, and King Lear at The Old Vic, as well as designing her own production of Romeo and Juliet for ETT which toured nationally and to the Hong Kong Arts Festival.

She has also designed with and for students at LAMDA, RADA, Arts Educational School, Mountview, Creative Partnerships and back at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School where she trained. She holds an Edinburgh Fringe First; the John Elvery Theatre Design Award; and a Vision Design Award (Costume) from the BBC.

Future projects include Alice In Wonderland - a new adaptation for Royal & Derngate at Christmas; ShowStopper! The Improvised Musical; a national tour of Rhinestone Mondays - a new play with music and Line-dancing!; and the national tour of King and I from Dec 2011 (Curve Production 2010); Gypsy Spring 2012 for Curve, Leicester.

Recent and notable credits include JB Priestley's Eden End (Royal & Derngate ; English Touring Theatre); The King and I and Hotstuff! (The 70s Musical), both for Curve at Leicester; Laurie Sansom's Young America season at the National Theatre, from the Royal, Northampton consisting of the European premiere of Tennesse Williams' first play Spring Storm in rep with Beyond The Horizon, Eugene O'Neill's first full length play; The Wizard of Oz also for the Royal; Neil LaBute's Helter Skelter/Land of The Dead (The Bush Theatre, soon to tour with a third piece The Furies for Dialogue Productions); Forgotten Things and Ugly (Red Ladder); Wedding Day At The Cromagnons (Soho Theatre); Treasure Island (Derby Playhouse);The Elixir of Love (Grange Park Opera, co-design); Beckett's Rough For Theatre 1 & 2 ( Arts Theatre, London); Return To The Forbidden Planet (national tour); Singin' In The Rain (dir: Nikolai Foster at the Courtyard, Hereford) Dead Funny (also Nikolai Foster for Oldham and national tour); The Crypt Project (a site specific piece at St Andrew's London for Sincera Productions); The Ladykillers (The Northcott Exeter); and Union Street - Plymouth Theatre Royal's millennium project with a cast of 230. She also designed the original and several subsequent productions of the cult space-rock musical Saucy Jack and The Space Vixens, one of which was in its own nightclub at the arches under London Bridge.