Sarah Clarke (she/her) is an award winning actor, director and photographer based in Melbourne (Naarm). A graduate of the full-time program at the Howard Fine Acting Studio Australia, she also holds an Advanced Diploma Arts (Acting) from Southbank Institute of Technology and an ATCL Performer's Certificate with the Trinity College of London.

As the production manager of Complete Works Theatre Company (2018-2023), she’s run the full gamut of theatre-production roles, including directing, lighting and sound operation, design, photography, PR, marketing, tour management and social media.

Over the last 10 years, Sarah has written, directed and performed in live theatre, educational tours, Shakespeare in the park, children’s theatre, cabaret, web series, TVCs, short and feature length films. She has completed writing residencies at Footscray Arts Box and Arteles Creative Centre in Finland.

Her performance credits include: 2024 Book Week Tour (Meerkat Productions), Much Ado About Nothing and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Melbourne Shakespeare Company), Twelfth Night, Uncle Vanya, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing and The Crucible (Complete Works Theatre Company), Ophelia Thinks Harder and Outside In (Wit Incorporated) and Terminus (North of Eight), as well as performing at Melbourne Fringe (2024, 2018, 2015), MICF (2016), Anywhere Festival (2013, 2016), La Mama Explorations (2015) and Adelaide Fringe (2013).

Directing credits include: JSMR (Spinning Plates, Melbourne Fringe, 2022), Australian Poetry (Complete Works, 2022), The 7 Stages of Grieving & The Longest Memory (assistant – Complete Works, 2020), Bombshells (Wit Incorporated, 2019), Killing the Duck (Key Conspirators, 2019) and Resilient Lotus (Key Conspirators 2018).