Sara’s artistic work bridges writing, theatre, and Pochinko Clown Through Mask technique, with each discipline informing and inspiring the others. After graduating with a BFA in Acting from York University, she founded a feminist theatre company, She Said Yes!, in 2002, and received the Rhonda Payne Theatre Award in 2006, which acknowledges the contribution of a woman working in theatre in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Sara’s writing spans the genres of playwriting, prose and poetry. She has written, co-written or co-created over ten plays to date, all of which have received professional production. Skin Room, her first novel (Pedlar Press, 2008), won both the 2004 Newfoundland and Labrador Percy Janes First Novel Award and the inaugural Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers in 2006. Skin Room is shortlisted for the Winterset Award and the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize.

In 2008 Sara was awarded a Canada Council for the Arts Professional Development grant to travel to Vancouver for six months to mentor with Pochinko Clown Through Mask co-founder, Ian Wallace. This experience has allowed Sara to begin teaching this unique theatre form, making her one of a handful of Pochinko instructors in the world.

She is also the Executive Director of Visual Artists Newfoundland and Labrador, VANL-CARFAC.

Sara was born in St. John’s, but spent most of her childhood in rural and isolated communities in Newfoundland, Labrador and the Northwest Territories. She lives in St. John’s with her partner, Craig, and their cat.