Sarah fell in love with theatre and theatre design while doing a degree in history at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. After graduating in 1969 she went to Motley in London and did a years postgraduate diploma in Set and Costume Design. Since then she has worked freelance combining theatre design with production management, mainly for large-scale site specific performance projects.
At present she is a Lecturer in Set Design at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh; previously she has taught at Rose Bruford College, Royal Holloway and Bedford College and Glasgow School of Art amongst a number of other institutions.
She has worked on at least 350 shows, most of them long forgotten, which included work for Theatre Royal Stratford East, 7:84, Modern Times, Avon Touring, and The Welsh National Theatre. More recently she has designed a sequence of Shakespeare plays for Bard in the Botanics in Glasgow, the Pinter and Beckett seasons for the Arches, and is currently working on an outreach project with Scottish Opera.
