Sarah Milton

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.