“Being able to see a way that my arts practice fits into the national landscape has really helped me to push through some of those access barriers that I have in my practice.”

Sarah Reuben lives on Larakia Country/Darwin and is a theatre maker, performer and producer. For her own Theatre Company, Ruby Gaytime Productions, Reuben wrote and produced: Best, Short Change, Death Party and This Jew Sits. Sarah co-created and produced I’ll Tell you in Person, which had seasons at both Darwin Festival 2020 and Perth Festival 2021 and Lower The Bar for a season at Darwin Entertainment Centre and a regional tour with ArtBack. Most recently she co-wrote and performed in The Hypotheticals, which premiered at Darwin Festival 2021.

Sarah is a co-creator of the nationally touring show Shania Choir, creator of the webseries Deadly Tales and 2020 was awarded the NT Literary Award for The Hypotheticals, which she co-wrote with Jeffrey Jay Fowler. Most recently, Sarah completed her Post Grad through the University of Melbourne in Creativity in Health, focusing on the intersection of performing arts and medicine, a huge passion of hers. This resulted in a large-scale animated storytelling project aimed at increasing health outcomes for children living in remote Aboriginal Communities.