Sarah is a comedy writer, performer, and award-winning author of children’s books. She is a previous winner of the Funny Women Comedy Writing Award for her script THE SLUSH PILE and is a graduate of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme.
Sarah wrote multiple episodes across two series of teen mystery drama EVERMOOR for Lime Pictures/Disney, plus she wrote on the teen musical drama THE LODGE Series 2 for Zodiak Kids/Disney. Other commissions include a co-written live action children’s comedy pilot for Lime Pictures, and THE WORST WITCH for CBBC. She recently wrote on a new animated series for Sun Creature Studios and Cartoon Network, THE HEROIC QUEST OF THE VALIANT PRINCE IVANDOE. She has been working on an adaptation for Magic Light Pictures.
She is also the author of more than 20 children’s books. The first book in her comedy adventure series, Buckle and Squash, (Macmillan) won the Sainsbury’s Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Sheffield Children’s Book Prize and Coventry Inspiration Book Award. She has also been writing a new series of Wombles books for Bloomsbury.
Sarah was the winner of the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum for her sitcom script, THE SLUSH PILE, which was given a rehearsed reading at the New York Television Festival and developed by Objective Productions. She also worked with Objective developing a sitcom script, CAMELOT, and a comedy pilot, BAD THERAPIST, which she co-wrote with comedian Susan Calman. She has also worked on NITWIT, a children’s comedy, with Citrus TV.
Sarah’s short stories for adults have been published in various magazines, and broadcast on Radio 4. She also works as an illustrator and freelance editor. Her work as an author is represented by Catherine Clarke at Felicity Bryan Associates.