Sarah Wilson is a playwright and Creative Writing PhD student at the University of Queensland.

Sarah’s play How to Say I Love You in Every Possible Imagined Future was recently shortlisted for the 2025 Queensland Premier’s Drama Award. She also cowrote the ecofeminist work Rising, which was commissioned and produced by Playlab Theatre and debuted in 2021.

Using mutually informative critical and creative components, Sarah’s PhD research explores how playwrights impact the theatre experience for autistic audiences. Her broader research interests are in addressing the impact of silencing and erasure on texts by, for and about marginalised groups.

Sarah was awarded the Veronica Kelly Prize for best postgraduate paper at the Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies (ADSA) Conference 2022 for her paper Our Own Time and Space: Locating Autistic Poetics in Theatre. The paper was subsequently adapted for publication in Australasian Drama Studies no. 82.

Sarah was a member of QTC’s Young Writers Group in 2016, a participant in Queensland Theatre’s Playwrights 18-26 Program in 2017, and in 2018 was selected for Playlab Theatre’s Incubator program. Sarah was also selected for the 2022-23 UQ Global Change Scholars Program.