SARAH
SAYEED
Composer
Sound
Designer
Musical
Director
Writer
Performer
Sarah Sayeed is a UK based Composer, Sound Designer, Musical Director and Writer who has worked across the music and arts industry sectors for over 15 years. She has written music for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Contact Theatre and Tamasha and developed a body of work across music with other artforms that have been platformed and performed at venues to include the green room, The Whitworth and Band on the Wall (Manchester), Cargo, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Rich Mix (London) and New Art Exchange (Nottingham).
Sarah’s work as a writer is bold and imaginative and she has long considered her work in writing as fundamental to her existence as an artist and to her sense of artistic identity overall. Sarah is currently working on immersive theatre piece Descent with Midland Actors Theatre and co-written with David Calcutt. She is also currently working on a new body of work to publish.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
'I have long been a fan of Sarah’s work up here in the north. '
— Alan Lane, Artistic Director, Slung Low
'Santi and Naz' – The Thelmas by Guleraana Mir and Afshan D’souza-Lodhi
Composer and Sound Designer
Directed by Madelaine Moore
Vault Festival 28th January – 2nd February
'Come on In' – Strongback Productions
Composer
'Tangled Tales' – Schools and Libraries Tour – Theatre Rites
Composer and Sound Designer
Directed by Elgiva Field
10th February – 22nd February
(on) Mayflower 400
“Sarah will be working with me on the ground-breaking Mayflower 400 performance project in 2020 as Composer and Musial Director. The Mayflower performance project is a transatlantic collaboration between the Wampanoag community and communities in Plymouth, UK. An important, delicate piece of political theatre as part of the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower’s journey. The political importance of this project in very tense times is an exciting and rare opportunity and responsibility, which promises to support and demand artistic work of the highest order.”
Alan Lane, Artistic Director, Slung Low
'This Land' – Theatre Royal Plymouth
Composer and Musical Director
Directed by Alan Lane
Photography by Mat Johns, Melanie Webb, Sam Golanski, Robert Downes and Cheldon Pro F Fingers.
Website by Bridget Fiske.
Video work by Spraoi Productions. Track by Mogwai.