Sara Matchett

Artistic Director and Co-Founder of the MotherTongue Theatre Project (South Africa)

Sara Matchett is the Director of the Centre for Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies (CTDPS) at the University of Cape Town (UCT). She is also an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework® and the Regional Co-ordinator of the Fitzmaurice Institute for Africa. Her teaching profile centres around practical and academic courses that include, voice, acting, performance-making, applied theatre, and performance analysis. She is especially interested in transdisciplinary modes of creating. Her research explores the body as a site for generating images for the purpose of performance making and specifically focuses on investigating the relationship between breath and emotion, and breath and image, in an attempt to make performance that is inspired by a biography of the body. Her particular interests are in embodied practices that focus on presencing, co-sensing, co-llaborating and co-generating as a way of transforming egosystems to ecosystems. She is currently a co-investigator on the GlobalGrace Project South African work package, a partnership between the CTDPS, the African Gender Insitutue at UCT, and the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Task Force (SWEAT). As co-founder and Artistic Director of The Mothertongue Project women’s arts collective, Sara has experience in the field of theatre & performance nationally and internationally as a theatre-maker, performer, director and facilitator.