Bio
Sarah Rose Graber, is a multidisciplinary theatre artist working between the US and the UK. Originally from Miami, she moved to Chicago to study theatre at Northwestern University and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London which piqued her interest in the international theatre scene. Graber is a Circumnavigator Scholar Grant winner having traveled around the world to England, South Africa, Kenya, Mauritius, Australia, New Zealand, and Argentina exploring theatre for social change. She was awarded a prestigious US-UK Fulbright Grant in 2013 to work with professional theatre companies across the UK researching devising based practices and making interdisciplinary theatrical experiences. Sarah Rose was named “One of 15 Women to Watch” in 2015 by Today’s Chicago Woman Magazine and received the MacArthur International Connections Fund for her production of REPRISE with National Theatre of Scotland’s HOME AWAY Festival in partnership with Adventure Stage Chicago. Her interest in Serendipity in creative practice was featured as a TED talk at the TEDxFulbrightGlasgow event and is currently the voice of Twig Education’s Reach Out Reporter in both the UK and US.
In the UK, Graber has worked with the National Theatre of Scotland, Playwrights’ Studio Scotland, Fuel, New Inck, Tron, the LIFT festival, Scottish Youth Theatre, Surge, Clown Cabaret, Paragon, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Hailed by the Chicago Theatre Beat as “one of the finest comedic actresses in Chicago,” Graber has worked with many US companies including Northlight Theatre, Victory Gardens, Collaboraction, Strawdog Theatre, Metropolis Performing Arts Center, Adventure Stage Chicago, the Factory Theater, and Knife & Fork.
In addition to her theatre work, Graber is a horse performer and former company rider at the Noble Horse Theatre. She was part of the creative team for a new show with Klinten Kultur and the Equus Project in Sweden called NATTDANS PA HOVDALA that brought together horseback riding, dance, fire, drumming, and autistic performers. THE PULLMAN PROJECT, her collaboration with JoAnna Mendl Shaw, is multi year performance project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and uses horses and train cars in the old Pullman train factory of south side Chicago.
Sarah Rose Graber has been working as a professional drama educator and facilitator since 2005 and has directed and devised numerous productions, led master class workshops and run programs at Northwestern University, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Scottish Youth Theatre, Adventure Stage Chicago, Metropolis Performing Arts Center, Theatre in Schools Scotland, the Chicago Humanities Festival, Actors Gymnasium, Northlight Theatre, National High School Institute Cherub Program, House in the Wood, and Chicago Academy for the Arts.
Graber is a lover of travel and enjoys working across cultures. Her work often takes on a feminist perspective, explores issues of social change and plays with humour. Graber is Co-Artistic Director of New Inck Theatre which creates all original work.