Sarah is a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (MA Classical Text – Acting) and performs internationally under the name Sarah Linnell. As a recognized Global Talent, she splits her time between the US, Japan, and the UK where she is currently based.
Sarah developed a passion for multilingual/multicultural theatre at an early age, and is a firm believer in both the power of language, and the power of theatre to surpass language barriers.
The first 10 years of her career were spent in Japan, where her work included stage, tv, film, radio, voiceover, and motion capture. She was a regular participant – both as actor and translator – in a bilingual workshop series for new writing in collaboration with playwrights Takeshi Kawamura and John Jesurun. She went on to write the official English translation of Kawamura’s ‘On the Street Vol. 5–Tokyo Lockdown’ for publication in the Japan Playwright Association’s ‘Engeki: Japanese Theatre in the New Millenium’. She has since translated Laura Schellhardt’s ‘Shapeshifter’ into Japanese, organizing a bilingual workshop in NYC and a Japanese staged reading in Tokyo.