Sarah Richardson

Sarah Richardson is an award-winning playwright, actor and spoken word poet. She has performed her poetry across the UK and Ireland, including at Electric Picnic, Knockanstockan and the Women of Wit tour. Awards received include Inter-Varisty Slam Champion 2018 and Best Female Poet at Circle Sessions.

As playwright, her debut play, GirlPlay, was staged at Dublin Fringe 2019 and went on to have an international digital tour in 2020/1, winning Best Digital Experience at Stockholm Fringe Festival. The Stage and The Wee Review gave it a four and five stars respectively, calling it “a powerful audio examination of emotion, sex and the female body”. GirlPlay was restaged at Camden People’s Theatre in October 2021, supported by the Culture Ireland and Arts Council England and is now headlining theSpaceUK venues at Edinburgh Fringe 2022.

Sarah has been the recipient of the Axis Assemble Associate Artist programme (2020) and FringeLab Artist programme (2020) for her work and her upcoming projects include a one woman show Sun Bear. She was also selected to be a part of NSDF Lab 2021/2, where she created a new piece of teen theatre, A Ton of Feathers, that was presented at the NSDF festival 2022.