Sara has designed over 300 shows to date, for UK & world tours, regional theatres, immersive & site specific, West End and National Theatre; and for genres including Shakespeare, classic drama, devised work, family shows, new writing, comedy and musicals.

Future productions include: Mary & The Hyenas (Pilot Theatre & Hull Truck; The Gift (Park Theatre, London)

Current productions include: Jesus Christ Superstar (Spring ’25 Scenekvelder, Oslo); The Mind Mangler (currently Virgin Voyagers; but also UK Tour ’23-24 and West End ’24)

More recent Productions include: Flowers For Mrs Harris Riverside Studios (Costume Design – Aria Ents and Tiny Giant); You Bury Me – The Women’s Playwriting Award from Paines Plough (Bristol Old Vic &Edinburgh Lyceum, Orange Tree) Good Luck, Studio (Mischief, Mercury Theatre & Wiltshire Creative); The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (UK Tour Aria & GHF) 71, Coltman Street, Richard Bean’s new play for Hull Truck’s 50th Anniversary; UK & International Tour of Footloose and Tim Firth’s new musical Now Is Good (Chester Storyhouse)

Other work includes American Idiot, Spamalot, Footloose (West End & UK & International Tours), Hello Dolly!, Gypsy, Hot Stuff! (Curve) and The King and I (UK tour); Beauty Queen of Leenane (Hull Truck); Brideshead Revisited (York & English Touring Theatre UK tour); the all-female Oranges and Elephants (London); the all-female POSH (London); The Suffragette Project (York); Brighton Rock for Pilot (UK tour); Mother Courage (site specific with Pauline McLynn) for Red Ladder. Spring Storm & Beyond The Horizon (National Theatre & Northampton); The Mold Riots (Clwyd); Betty Blue Eyes, Sweeney Todd, Turn Of The Screw;(UK tours) Journey’s End , Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and the promenade, multidiscipline, site specific Depot amongst many shows at The Mercury, Colchester.

She was Head of Design for Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre at York (managing teams for eight concurrent productions); & she specifically designed Macbeth, Midsummer Night’s Dream; Twelfth Night and Hamlet, as well as the theatre stage & facade (2018-19, York & Oxford).

She has held Resident Associate Designer positions at both at The Mercury and English Touring Theatre, and was nominated for Broadway World Award and What’s On Stage Award (American Idiot); for an Offie (Oranges & Elephants and Flowers For Mrs Harris). The latter was awarded Best Off West End Production by Whats On Stage ’23. She holds an Edinburgh Fringe First; The John Elvery Theatre Design Award, and a Vision Design (Costume) Award from the BBC.

She holds a BA Hons in Drama & Theatre Studies; and trained in Theatre Design at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.