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Sarah Groarke

Training: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School where she was the recipient of the Peter Ackerman Comedy Prize.

Theatre includes: A Christmas Carol (Octagon Theatre Bolton); The Borrowers, Bus Stop, Silence, Shining City (Theatre By The Lake); Jane Eyre (Stephen Joseph Theatre/New Vic Theatre); Macbeth (Southwark Playhouse); Animal Farm (Theatre Royal, Bath); Grimm Tales (Library Theatre Company) ; A Streetcar Named Desire (Nuffield Theatre); Henry V, Taking Steps (Ryan Theatre); Arabian Nights (Watermill Theatre); Pericles (New Vic Studio); Sir Thomas More (Bath Shakespeare Festival).

TV and film includes:The Bay, Brassic, Coronation Street, Hollyoaks, Emmerdale, A Quiet Night In, The Shadow of the Vampire.

Sarah enjoys working with writers and has created roles in new plays including: Linda Marie in Lost Boy Racer (Lawrence Batley Theatre & tour), Vera in Blonde Bombshells of 1943 (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Carole in Remembering The Way and Mrs Manresa in Between the Acts. Sarah has also worked on projects with the South West Scriptwriters and North West Playwrights.

As an experienced voice-over artist with her own studio, Sarah has provided voices for various projects and is an established audiobook narrator. She is a Lecturer in Acting at Leeds Conservatoire, runs Kickstart Drama clubs for Primary schools and works as a Voice and Presentation Coach: groarketalk.co.uk. She is also a highly regarded brass band conductor and adjudicator

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