Sarah Wilson is a Meanjin-Brisbane-based playwright and drama researcher.
Sarah’s play How to Say I Love You in Every Possible Imagined Future was shortlisted for the 2025 Queensland Premier’s Drama Award. She also cowrote the ecofeminist work Rising, which was commissioned and produced by Playlab Theatre and debuted in 2021.
She recently completed her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Queensland. Using mutually informative critical and creative components, her thesis explores how playwrights can utilise a Neuroqueer autistic dramaturgy to create a form for their work that validates autistic cognition and communication as meaningful. Follow this link to learn about Sarah’s broader research interests.
Sarah has presented papers at Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies (ADSA) conferences, and the International Federation for Theatre Researcher (IFTR) conferences, and for the University of Sydeny’s TaPS seminar. Sarah was awarded the Veronica Kelly Prize for best postgraduate paper at the ADSA Conference 2022 for her paper Our Own Time and Space: Locating Autistic Poetics in Theatre. The paper was subsequently adapted for publication in Australasian Drama Studies no. 82.
Sarah was a member of QTC’s Young Writers Group in 2016, a participant in Queensland Theatre’s Playwrights 18-26 Program in 2017, and in 2018 was selected for Playlab Theatre’s Incubator program. Sarah was also selected for the 2022-23 UQ Global Change Scholars Program.
Contact: slwilson555@gmail.com