Sara Gibbs
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Sara Gibbs is a British comedy script writer and autism advocate[1] with credits on the British television shows HIGNFY, Dead Ringers, The News Quiz, The Now Show and The Mash Report amongst others.
She grew up in East Grinstead, England in a culturally Jewish (which sustained her socially)[2] New Age family who made occasional shul visits, and was given a Waldorf education. She regards being diagnosed on the autism spectrum at thirty "like returning to my own planet" and explanatory of much of her lifelong behaviour and idiocyncracies.[3][4][5] Her 2021 memoir Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful labels was well received.[6]
She is a graduate of the National Film and Television School’s Writing & Producing Comedy course.[7]
She lives with her husband in southeast England.
References[]
- ^ "'We don't need to be cured or fixed': writers speak out on autism". the Guardian. June 27, 2021.
- ^ "What It's Like Being the Only Jew in Town". Alma. October 12, 2018.
- ^ Gibbs, Sara (February 8, 2019). "'Knowing I am autistic has set me free to be me'". The Jewish Chronicle.
- ^ "I think theres a lack of understanding of how autism can present in girls, who are often socialised differently". www.autism.org.uk.
- ^ "What It's Like to Get an Autism Diagnosis After Years of Being Called Difficult, Dramatic and Lazy". Pocket.
- ^ "Comedy writer Sara Gibbs pens autism memoir". British Comedy Guide. October 30, 2020.
- ^ "Sara Gibbs | Authors". The Soho Agency.
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- English comedy writers
- Jewish comedy writers
- English memoirists
- British women memoirists
- 21st-century memoirists
- 21st-century English writers
- 21st-century English women writers
- English Jewish writers
- Jewish women writers
- People from East Grinstead
- People on the autism spectrum
- Writers with disabilities
- English people with disabilities
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