Sara Tilley

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Sara Tilley’s work bridges writing, theatre, and Pochinko Clown Through Mask technique. She has published two novels: Skin Room (Pedlar Press, 2008), and DUKE, (Pedlar Press, 2015), winner of the BMO Winterset Award, shortlisted for the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Fiction and longlisted for the Dublin International Literary Award. Sara has been Writer in Residence at Memorial University, the University of Calgary, and at Berton House in Dawson City, Yukon. From 2002-2016, she ran an independent feminist theatre company, She Said Yes!, which produced many of the eleven plays which she’s written, co-written or co-created. Sara’s wide spectrum of work includes time spent as a writers, an actor, a designer of puppets, masks, props, and sometimes sets and costumes, a director, a puppeteer, a dramaturg and a clown teacher/performer. She is fascinated by the ways in which these creative practices overlap and feed each other.