Sarah Farrell

Glasgow, Scotland
Participant International Forum 2025

Sarah Farrell is an actor, writer and theatre maker from Scotland. They make devised, multi-disciplinary work exploring the lives of real people. Their work challenges form, utilising performance art, dance, drag, cabaret, audience interaction, live music and multi-media. Rooted in lived experiences, contemporary and historical, they draw from verbatim interviews and archival resources.

Farrell’s practice engages with theatre’s liveness, interacting directly with a live audience, seeking to make their experience engaging and inclusive. Across their work, Farrell centres care, wellbeing and creating affordable, accessible theatre. They co-founded devised theatre company Yellow Magpies performing in the UK and internationally. They then trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and co-founded devising collective Sweet Beef whose shows “I Hate It Here” and “Crying Shame” completed two UK tours and received the Stanley Arts Queer Arts Commission 2024 respectively. Farrell is the recipient of Playwrights’ Studio Scotland Disabled Playwright’s Support Programme 2024 and is a Director of Friends of Monimail Kirk, aiming to increase rural access to the arts. They’re currently developing “Elke”, a show about pioneering lichenologist and trans woman Elke Mackenzie, in association with Stellar Quines, Surge, Manipulate and Tortoise in a Nutshell, supported by Creative Scotland and Capital Theatres.