About me

Sarah is an award-nominated writer and performer. She is an alumni of Lyric Hammersmith (2013), Soho Theatre (2014/15), HighTide (2015) and RADA Advances in Script Writing 2015.
Sarah was one of ten young writers selected to work with The Royal Court theatre on their Open Court Festival 2016. Her audio play 'The Flower Show' ran for three weeks at The Royal Court during July 2016, and her play ‘The Night Tella’ was presented in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, as part of the festival. She performed 'The Night Tella’.
Sarah's one woman play ‘Tumble Tuck’, in which she starred, was placed highly on the Soho Theatre's Verity Bargate 2015 Award list. It was presented by The Old Vic New Voices at Wilderness Festival in August 2016, and then the Soho Theatre in the Soho Rising season during October 2016. BackHere! Theatre produced ‘TumbleTuck' for The Underbelly in Edinburgh 2017. It transferred to The King's Head Theatre in April 2018 as the headline show of their 'Who Runs The World?' festival and was nominated for an Off West End Award nomination for Best Performance Piece.
Sarah's play 'Lucy Light’ ran at the Theatre N16 for three weeks to critical acclaim in September 2017. Milroyd Productions produced a new version of the same play at VAULT Festival 2019, also to rave reviews.
Sarah's one-woman show '4' was presented by Bruised Sky Productions at Park Theatre in 2022. In September 2022, she was made an Associate Artist of Bruised Sky Productions. 
Sarah's plays ‘Tumble Tuck’, ‘Lucy Light’'4' and 'The Night Tella' are all published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.
Sarah was 1 of 12 writers (out of 3000 applicants) on the 2019 Channel 4 Screenwriting programme led by Philip Shelley.
She was nominated for a 2019 Edinburgh TV Festival New Voice Award in the Stage to Screen category for ‘Tumble Tuck’.
Sarah’s feature film adaptation of her play ‘Lucy Light’ placed as a quarter finalist in the international Shore Scripts 2020 Feature Film competition and was shortlisted for the Screen & Story 2021 Film Festival Screenplay competition.
Her feature length film 'Project Baby' was commissioned by Reel One Entertainment in 2021. It wrapped in the United States in the summer of 2022, and was directed by Haylie Duff. It was released in Europe and Canada in 2023.
Her short film 'SCOFFED' - commissioned and developed by ManChild Films - wrapped in December 2022. It was released in Spring 2023.

Sarah trained at London's Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts on the BA (Hons) Acting course on a full means-tested scholarship, graduating in 2012. 

My Plays

4


Synopsis:

"You definitely want to f*ck her but you don't want to know her. You certainly don't want to stay for breakfast…"

Sarah Milton's new one-woman play tells the story of one woman's immediate response to a sexual assault, fueled by a toxic friendship and crisis of identity.

Two best friends are heading out for the night. Our protagonist, known as 'She', is hoping to win over her crush – Isaac the bartender, at their favourite joint. That night, her best friend Trixie decides to invite a group of men home that she fancies, promoting She as her sexy, obtainable friend, to help seal the deal. But when She wakes up the next day, confused, sore, lying next to a man she doesn't recognise, she is forced to re-evaluate everything she thinks she knows about her friendships, identity and sexuality.


Number of Characters: 1


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 1


Length (in Pages): 56


Location: Brighton


Key Words: monologue, drama, feminist


Has the Play Been Produced? Yes


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? Yes


Award nominations/wins:


Reviews:

"Milton’s descriptions are frequently vivid and the poetry of her writing engaging... 4 shines a piercing light on the impact of sexual trauma, and how this can trigger a re-evaluation of an unsatisfactory life. From it, Milton emerges as a talent to take notice of."
THE INDIEPENDENT

"A necessary play, one that shines a light on the intertwinement of certain types of trauma. Milton's text is poetic in a prose that can turn into a harrowing rat-a-tat of vivid descriptions."
BROADWAY WORLD

"A triumph in engaged storytelling"
Creative Reviews UK


Production Photos/Posters/Playtext Cover:

Play Image

Lucy Light


Synopsis:

"Do you get to design your boobs? Is it like Build-A-Bear?"

Meet Lucy and Jess; two best friends who obsess over boys, booze and their boobs. But when her mother dies of breast cancer, Lucy is forced to make a decision that will change her body forever.

A story that spans ten years, Lucy Light is a powerful duologue between two women that offers a nostalgic look at our relationship with our bodies, the hereditary nature of cancer, and the strength of female friendships.


Number of Characters: 2


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 2


Length (in Pages): 36


Location: Scarborough


Key Words: duologue, friendship, young people


Has the Play Been Produced? Yes


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? Yes


Award nominations/wins:


Reviews:

\"Lucy Light is an absorbing, truthful, and poignant hour of theatre. Sarah Milton\'s writing is raw and incredibly important”
THE NATIONAL STUDENT

\"A truly beautiful show”
MIRO MAGAZINE

\"This is an absorbing and important hour of theatre.”
THE STAGE

\"It would seem impossible to make a play about premature prophylactic bilateral mastectomy funny. But Sarah Milton’s Lucy Light does it, in a way that’s empathetic, not crass, hopeful, not exploitative.\"
HIIVE

\"The emotional integrity of Milton’s writing makes Lucy Light shine defiantly in the face of cancer – GO SEE THIS.\"
FAIRY POWERED PRODUCTIONS

\"Hardly a dry eye in the house. Hopefully, this is not the last we see of this moving play or talented team.”
LONDON PUB THEATRES

\"Sarah Milton\'s astutely-crafted script provides pragmatic and brave characters who are able to describe their feelings in easily understood, everyday language which evokes humour along the way, even given the serious issues it discusses.”
ACT DROP

“Milton writes sharp roles that flourish within her heartwarming and honest tale of the struggles of a life lived in the shadow of cancer.”
BROADWAY WORLD

“While both funny and serious, this highly moving piece is well-written and witty as it examines the harrowing turmoil and grief associated with illness. Lucy Light is thought-provoking, emotionally gripping, entertaining, and above all lovingly human and hopeful.”
THE UPCOMING

“What Milton’s script does really well is combine the educational with the emotional… A moving and humorous play about the enduring power of friendship and the C-word – it’s performed and presented beautifully.”
MIND THE BLOG

“An enormously likeable play, performed with real vim… It would be a hard heart that didn’t respond to this unaffected piece.”
LYN GARDNER


Production Photos/Posters/Playtext Cover:

Play Image

The Night Tella


Synopsis:

"Do you remember the club, Amanda? Do you remember the club?"

Published with Sarah's play 4, The Night Tella is a short spoken word piece which explores guilt, friendship and a night that should have ended in the chip shop.


Number of Characters: 1


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 1


Length (in Pages): 10


Location: Brighton


Key Words: monologue, drama, spoken word


Has the Play Been Produced? Yes


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? Yes


Award nominations/wins: The Night Tella has been performed at The Jermyn Street Theatre, Tristan Bates Theatre, Waterloo East Theatre, VAULT Festival and The Royal Court Theatre


Reviews:


Production Photos/Posters/Playtext Cover:

Play Image

Tumble Tuck


Synopsis:

"My front crawl is a bit f***ing feminine"

Tumble Tuck is a funny, brutal and honest one person piece about body image, mental health and relationships, that seeks to examine what it means to be successful in a world where medals matter.


Number of Characters: 1


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 1


Length (in Pages): 36


Location: Essex


Key Words: Monologue, comedy, drama, young people


Has the Play Been Produced? Yes


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? Yes


Award nominations/wins: 2019 The Edinburgh TV Festival New Voice Awards Stage to Screen Nominee - - 2018 Off West End Award for Best Performance Piece Nominee


Reviews:

“Beautifully woven, a poetic demonstration.”
WHAT’S ON STAGE

\"Milton plays her (Daisy) with drive and focus, at one with the rhythms of her own script and never missing a beat.\"
THE SCOTSMAN

“Exhilarating... Milton lets the serious moments hang in the air, but also uses the tension to create excellent comedic timing in off-hand, understated comments.”
EXEUNT

“genuinely funny, quietly poignant and ultimately affirming (for men and women alike) writing, elevated further by a passionate, energetic and precise central performance.”
ARTHUR’S SEAT

“Milton’s writing gives them a refreshed vitality, her personal framing of events is accessible and relatable. Energetic and engaging.”
THEATRE FULL STOP

“Milton’s ability as a writer can best be seen with the allowance she makes for an audience’s more sophisticated responses to the authentic young voices we hear... Most of the time Daisy appeals directly and Milton is superb at this: creating intimacy, engendering confidences and truly winning hearts.”
ONCE A WEEK THEATRE

\"With an admirable lightness of touch, Milton steers her characters into darker psychological terrain... A compelling story, deftly told.\"
THE STAGE

“Mixing lightness and intensity, Tumble Tuck is an emotional bomb. Under the pretext of a swimming competition, [Milton] appropriately explores themes such as psychological insecurity, the fear of failure, the gaze of the others...”
LE LONDONIEN

\"Hilarious, yet simultaneously heartbreaking\"
SPY IN THE STALLS

\"chlorine-scented powerhouse of a performance\"
MIRO MAGAZINE

\"Go and see it.\"
BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL

\"Milton is Fantastic\"
ISLINGTON GAZETTE

\"Milton is an outstanding talent, both as writer and actor\"
LONDON PUB THEATRES


Production Photos/Posters/Playtext Cover:

Play Image
Profile Photo
Sarah Milton
@ sarahmilton

Location

Brighton & Hove, UK

Contact