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Sarah Fitzgibbon

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Lecturer in Drama

Email: Sarah.fitzgibbon@tudublin.ie

Tel: 0863478841

Sarah FitzGibbon

Sarah FitzGibbon is  an applied drama practitioner, participatory theatre maker and drama in education specialist for nearly 30 years. She lectures on the Drama Facilitation strand of the BA in Drama Performance at T.U. Dublin Conservatoire and Early Years Drama on the Early Childhood Education BA. Her Masters in Socially Engaged Practice ( NCAD)  focusing the role of the facilitator in Integrated theatre practices for actors with Intellectual Disabilities.

Sarah has a long and deep history with the youth theatre sector in Ireland and it’s development since the 1990’s when she worked on practice, sectoral planning, advocacy and child protection guidance and training. 

Throughout the 2000’s,  Sarah with Joanna Parkes collaborated on the  Dublin City Council’s Educational Drama Programme, from which they developed  Step by Step Educational Drama (2006) and Step by Step Together (2009) for Irish Primary School teachers. She has been delivering drama in primary, secondary and early years contexts and has also conducted CPD for teachers in The Ark and teach training in DCU and Marino as well as TU Dublin. From 2010, she has collaborated with The Abbey Theatre on a variety of programmes including Priming the Canon and Theatre Making and Citizenship.

She writes and directs theatre for young audiences  with companies such as The Abbey Theatre, Little Big Top, Puca Puppets, Acting Up, Graffiti and Replay theatre companies.

A founding member of Mother Artist Makers (2016) and of Critical Friends (2018), a support network for Socially Engaged Artists and recent graduates of LCAD and NCAD.

 

Her current research areas are:

  1. Drama in Education: linking Social Sustainability goals within Drama Practice and Community Engaged Research and Learning strategies for third level students
  2. Integrated Theatre practice: pathways to a professional practice for actors with intellectual disabilities
  3. Her own Socially Engaged Arts and Theatre Practice.

 

Links that maybe useful:

http://www.dublincityartsoffice.ie/content/files/Drama_in_Schools_2003-13_Programme_Outline.pdf

Theatre-making and Citizenship

http://artsineducation.ie/en/watch-listen-read/

Priming the Canon- Me Mollser

https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/me-mollser/

 

 

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