About Sarah
Sarah E. Robbins is an artist/educator from Toronto, Ontario. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Toronto, working as the Project Manager for the SSHRC-funded Gatherings: Archival and Oral Histories of Performance in Canada. Sarah completed her PhD at the University of Toronto’s Graduate Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies (CDTPS) in 2022. She also holds an Hons. B.A. and a diploma in Professional Actor Training from the Theatre & Drama Studies program jointly held at the University of Toronto Mississauga and Sheridan College, and an M.A. from the CDTPS.
She has taught undergraduate courses in Theatre History for the University of Waterloo and the University of Windsor, as well as Drama & Theatre and Acting Training at Mount Allison University and at the University of Toronto. In the Summer 2021 semester, she developed a new syllabus for her course “Race, Gender and Performance” for the University of Toronto.
Recent projects include acting as Research Assistant to Drs. Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Nicole Nolette on the SSHRC-funded project, Staging Better Futures/Mettre en scène meilleurs avenirs. She also recently served on the Canadian Association for Theatre Research’s Board of Directors from 2021-2023 as the Graduate Student Representative, as well as on the association’s Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression Committee.
Sarah co-organized the inaugural 2023 Association of Acting Coaches and Educators (AACE) Conference at Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre. This conference builds upon the 2019 Got Your Back (GYB) Acting Educators Conference she helped co-organize. She also co-organized the 2019 Festival of Original Theatre (FOOT) Conference at CDTPS on the theme of "Equity & Diversity in the Performing Arts." Other recent projects include working as a Research Assistant for the Jackman Humanities Institute Working Group “Imagining a Music-Theatre Curriculum in North America,” and acting as a core member of Got Your Back Canada (GYB).
She has shared her work at international conferences for the Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR), International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR), and Performance Studies International (PSi), and has published her work in Intermission Magazine, alt.theatre magazine, HowlRound Theatre Commons, and Canadian Theatre Review.