Sarah Ward

Sarah Ward (she/her) is a Helpmann Award winning Cabaret Artist, Actor, Teacher, and Creative Producer. She was a recipient of the Australia Council Fellowship for Community Arts and Cultural Development in 2022-2024. She is best known for Yana Alana, her one-time feminist performance poet alter-ego and cabaret character. With her band Tha Paranas, Yana toured the world for a decade from Copenhagen to London, New Zealand to Berlin, The Seychelles to Nhill.  
Outside of Fat Fruit, Sarah is a versatile physically embodied film and stage actor, most recently seen as Bobby in Patricia Cornelius and Susie Dee’s independent feature film SHIT, reprising her role from the stage production. Other highlights: touring the globe with Circus OZ, La Soiree and Finucane & Smith. National touring with Retro Futurismas, Yummy, Arena Theatre Company, Hayes Theatre and Melbourne Workers Theatre.  
In 2001, after graduating from Actors Centre Australia, Sarah co-created Sista She with Candy and Kim Bowers, a genre busting hip-hop cabaret act that toured arts and music festivals around Australia.