Core Team

Sarah Thom - Co-Artistic Director

Sarah Thom joined Foursight in 2005 to create the role of Narrator Maggie in Thatcher, The Musical! and became co-Artistic Director in 2007. She originally trained with Jacques Lecoq in Paris and at Exeter University and has since worked as an actor, devisor, workshop leader and director. Work to date includes the role of Associate Artist and performer with Kaos Theatre, shows included The Importance of Being Earnest, Alice, Moll Flanders and Richard lll (Riverside Studios); working as a performer and Associate Director with Trestle, including The Adventures of The Stoneheads (NT), Window Dressing, Island and Bitter Fruit (QEH) and touring nationally and abroad with companies such as Ophaboom and Platform 4, for whom she is also an Associate Artist.  

Alongside Foursight, Sarah is also co-Artistic Director of the site-specifc theatre company, Angels in the Architecture , which she co-founded in 2001 with Rebecca McCutchoen. Shows as producer/ performer include Still Life at the disused Aldwych Tube Station and the acclaimed production of Dido, Queen of Carthage at The Chapel of St. Barnanbas-in-Soho and Kensington Palace State Apartments, in which Sarah played Dido. She also movement directed The Round Dance af The Round House.  

Sarah has taught and directed workshops throughout her career, for many companies including Trestle (venues include Royal Albert Hall, Dundee Rep, Oxford Playhouse), LIPA, Middlesex University MA Directing Course, YMT-UK, The Cork Fringe Festival and The MATAN Project, Israel.   She also recently wrote and directed the short film Gnomad for Straight 8, which screened at the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival in 2008.  

In television her passion is comedy, credits includes The Never Generation, The Cat, Australian Boyfriend (BBC Comedy Award Sketch), the new feature film, Hippie Hippie Shake and playing various characters in the new BBC2 series, Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle.