Sarah Lafferty

Sarah Lafferty was born in Sligo, but she grew up in Mayo. Her breakthrough TV role was as nurse Aoife de Búrca in Martin Dwan's docudrama called 'Seven Women' on RTÉ 1. At the Royal Theatre in Castlebar, she narrated the world première of Kathy Fahey's original music & dance extravaganza called 'Fáinne Óir' to a sell-out crowd of 1,200 people. In Dublin, as part of a nationwide tour, Sarah narrated 'Fáinne Óir' at the Olympia. At the Smock Alley theatre, Sarah acted in and produced 'Inside Danny's box' which also starred Úna Crawford, John Cronin, Rex Ryan and Bryan Murray. At Avatar studio, she co-starred in a voice-over project which was written and directed by Maureen Selwood. As a member of the Players Society in Trinity College, Sarah performed regularly at the Beckett Theatre, while she co-founded 'Felix Culpa' theatre company with Annie Murphy which produced six sell-out shows of Enda Walsh's 'Sucking Dublin' at the New Theatre. In New York, Sarah narrated the US première of Kathy Fahey's original music & dance extravaganza called 'Fáinne Óir' to a sell-out crowd of 800 people at the Symphony Space on Broadway. Sarah also acted Off-Broadway, where she starred with Zach Gaffin in the Cell Theatre, and she acted alongside Maria Deasy in Bar Thalia. At Ripley-Grier studios, she starred with Gary Gregg in John Kearns' play, 'Boann and the Well of Wisdom'. Sarah played 'Hanna Sheehy Skeffington' in a one-woman show called 'Reminiscences of an Irish Suffragette' which was produced by 'Fallen Angel' and directed by Aedín Moloney. In London, Sarah studied acting at the London School of Dramatic Art. She made her West End debut in Adam Meggido's 'Some Voices' at the Soho Theatre, while she later played 'Carla' in Martin Derbyshire's 'the History of Cardenio' at the Courtyard Theatre. During this time, Sarah was the Irish World's theatre critic and she reviewed premières of the esteemed Peter Brook, Caryl Churchill and Martin McDonagh. She also interviewed 'Olivier' and 'Tony' winning actor Jim Norton and IFTA winning director John Crowley. Back in Ireland, Sarah acted alongside Jack Walsh in 'A play on Ulysses' in Blackrock which was directed by Nastaise Leddy and Iris Park. At Electric picnic, she acted in a Derek Murphy play which was produced by John Kearns. Sarah's first ever role was at the age of seven as Princess Elizabeth in an Irene Fleming production at the Hawk's Well theatre in Sligo. When she moved to Mayo, Sarah got to work with acclaimed playwright Seosamh Mac Gabhann and she was the lead actress in four All-Ireland winning Irish language productions at the Mullingar Arts Centre and at an Taibhdhearc. For the play 'Páistí ar Strae', Sarah won the Actor of the Day award at an Cumann Scoildrámaíochta.