Sara Gibbs

Sara Gibbs (born 1987[1]) is a British comedy script writer, author of a memoir and autism advocate.[2]

Biography

Gibbs was a script writer for the British television shows HIGNFY, Dead Ringers, The News Quiz, The Now Show and The Mash Report, amongst others.[3] She is the co-founder (Elsa Williams being the other) of The Daily Tism, an on-line satirical comedy sketch in the guise of a news site. Marketed as being by and for autistics, it is produced by Turtle Canyon Comedy. She variously serves as composer, executive producer, writer, and ensemble actor.[4] She is also the writer, director and show-runner for the audio comedy podcast It's a Superpower?? which made its debut July 2026.[5]

She grew up in East Grinstead, England in a culturally Jewish (which sustained her socially)[6] New Age family who made occasional shul visits, and was given a Waldorf education. She is a graduate of the National Film and Television School's Writing & Producing Comedy course.[7]

She was diagnosed with autism spectrum at thirty.[8] She regards her diagnosis "like returning to my own planet" and explanatory of much of her lifelong experiences, behaviour and idiocyncracies.[9][10][11]

Memoir

Her 2021 memoir Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful labels[1] was well received.[12]

Personal life

Gibbs lives with her husband in southeast England, and is bisexual.[13]

References

  1. 1 2 Gibbs, Sara (2021). Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful labels. London: Headline book publishing. ISBN 9781472274366.
  2. ↑ Sherwood, Harriet (27 June 2021). "'We don't need to be cured or fixed': writers speak out on autism". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
  3. ↑ Guide, British Comedy. "Sara Gibbs". British Comedy Guide.
  4. ↑ Guide, British Comedy (16 December 2024). "The Daily Tism launches autism-themed sketch show". British Comedy Guide.
  5. ↑ https://observer.co.uk/culture/audio/article/intimacy-is-proof-audio-dramas-are-thriving
  6. ↑ Gibbs, Sara (12 October 2018). "What It's Like Being the Only Jew in Town". Hey Alma. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
  7. ↑ "Sara Gibbs". The Soho Agency. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
  8. ↑ Odell, Michael (17 June 2021). "I was diagnosed with autism at 30 — I want to save other women the same struggle". The Times. Archived from the original on 17 June 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
  9. ↑ Gibbs, Sara (7 February 2019). "'Knowing I am autistic has set me free to be me'". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
  10. ↑ "I think theres a lack of understanding of how autism can present in girls, who are often socialised differently". National Autistic Society. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
  11. ↑ "What It's Like to Get an Autism Diagnosis After Years of Being Called Difficult, Dramatic and Lazy". Pocket. 24 June 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
  12. ↑ "Comedy writer Sara Gibbs pens autism memoir". British Comedy Guide. 30 October 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
  13. ↑ Gibbs, Sara [@Sara_Rose_G] (2 November 2022). "I've always felt weird about saying this, like I'm being dramatic or something & I realise now how much of that is the biphobic idea that if I'm with a man, I'm not bi enough. So just for the record, I'm bi. And I wish it hadn't taken me into my thirties to understand it" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 31 January 2023. Retrieved 31 January 2023 – via Twitter.
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