Sarah Loader

Sarah is the Executive Producer at Snapdragon Productions.

Snapdragon’s recent shows include: the London premiere of Paul Herzberg’s post-apartheid drama The Dead Wait (Park Theatre); the first London production in over 20 years of Ben Travers’ 1927 farce Thark (Park Theatre); the revival of A Life by Hugh Leonard (Finborough Theatre); the London premiere of Michael Healey’s The Drawer Boy (Finborough Theatre) which was named Time Out Critics’ Choice; the world premiere of Barrow Hill by Jane Wainwright (Finborough Theatre); the European premiere of Michael Healey’s Generous (Finborough Theatre) which enjoyed two sell-out runs and was also named Time Out Critics’ Choice; the award-winning European premiere of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical Me and Juliet (Finborough Theatre); and Anna Karenina (Arcola Theatre). Snapdragon co-produced the world premiere of Anders Lustgarten’s A Day at the Racists (Finborough Theatre and the Broadway Theatre, Barking) which was nominated for the 2010 TMA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Regional Theatre and won the playwright the Inaugural Harold Pinter Award for Playwriting.

Sarah is a former Production Executive for Bill Kenwright, where she looked after the West End productions of Blood Brothers, The Pitmen Painters and Three Days in May and the touring productions of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Starlight Express, as well as the annual collaboration between Bill Kenwright and the Agatha Christie Theatre Company, led by Joe Harmston.

In addition to her work with Snapdragon, Sarah works as an assistant to Simon McBurney. Most recently, they worked together on the DNO/ENO production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute which received its London premiere in November and A Dog’s Heart which was recently revived at Opera de Lyon and Theatro Alla Scala, Milan.

Sarah was the fundraising officer for the Finborough Theatre and co-founded the venue’s annual new writing festival, ‘Vibrant!’