A performer, puppeteer, producer, performance maker, mask actor & multidisciplinary artist, Sarah Nelson has a broad professional experience across theatre, film and community arts contexts. 

​Graduating with a Bachelor of Performing Arts in 2002 (Monash University), Sarah continued her training at Annie Stainer’s School of Physical Theatre (WA) as a scholarship student graduating in 2005. 

 

From the sands of remote indigenous communities, to national and international main stages, Sarah has a diverse and eclectic skill set and career to date collaborating and creating works across both disability & community arts alongside a career in main stage theatre and film.

 

​Sarah was recently nominated in the PAWA awards for Outstanding Performer in a Leading Role for her performance in Unheimlich by Katt Osborne & Tarryn Gill (PICA) following ,an extensive tour with UK’s leading mask theatre company Vamos, touring to Spain, Germany and numerous venues across the UK including Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Other Place.

 

​She has performed, collaborated, facilitated and consulted for a host of local, national and international theatre companies including Barking Gecko Theatre, Global Creatures, Black Swan State Theatre, Erth Visual & Physical Inc, Spare Parts Puppet Theatre, Maxima, Look Left Look Right, La Fura Del Baus, Performing Lines WA and international touring with The Last Great Hunt  'It’s Dark Outside', travelling to Japan, North America and South Africa. Sarah was a lead horse puppeteer in the world renowned National Theatre production of War Horse, and is creator of the award winning film portraiture project on a bike, Mobile Moments 

 

​Sarah recently starred in the web series Out of Here, and her debut main stage production Into The Fog is currently in development