S-27 won the first Protect The Human Playwriting Competition in 2007.

Sarah studied English at St John's College Oxford and Playwriting Studies at Birmingham University. She is the current holder of Off West End.com's Adopt a Playwright Award. Her play S-27 (Finborough 2009; Griffin Theatre Sydney 2010) won the 2007 Amnesty International Protect the Human Playwriting Competition, and was also shortlisted for the Kings Cross Award and the Leah Ryan Award for Emerging Women Writers. Other plays include Waiting for Romeo (Pleasance Islington 2009; Edinburgh Festival 2006) and Open Ground (Theatro Technis 2005). She has also written several short plays for The Miniaturists and for Theatre 503.