
Sarah Bird started her career in BBC Radio and Television drama and instigated the BBC’s first in-house casting department. The innovative series South of the Border was her first project as casting director. Other successful projects followed before she embarked on a flourishing and varied freelance career, which includes many award-winning films for cinema and television.
Theatre includes: Speaking in Tongues (West End), Bedroom Farce and Miss Julie (Rose, Kingston), Mrs Klein (Almeida), The Apple Cart and The Browning Version (Bath Theatre Royal), Calendar Girls (West End and tour), God of Carnage (West End), Rain Man (West End), Brief Encounter (West End), Cloud Nine (Almeida), Equus (West End), Heroes (West End), Art (West End and tour), The Play What I Wrote (West End and tour), Rebecca by Frank McGuiness (tour) and Calico by Michael Hastings (West End).
Film includes: A Bunch of Amateurs, Stormbreaker, As You Like It, Ladies in Lavender, Swimming Pool and Wilde.
Television includes: Hustle, Holby Blue, The Chase, Messiah, The Best Man, Silent Witness, Ny-Lon, Madame Bovary, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, Pie in the Sky and Wycliffe.
