Sara Gibbs is a British comedy script writer and autism advocate with credits on the British television shows HIGNFY, Dead Ringers, The News Quiz, The Now Show and The Mash Report amongst others. 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.
She grew up in East Grinstead, England in a culturally Jewish (which sustained her socially) 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.
She was diagnosed with autism spectrum at thirty. She regards her diagnosis "like returning to my own planet" and explanatory of much of her lifelong behaviour and idiocyncracies. Her 2021 memoir Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful labels was well received.
Personal life
Gibbs lives with her husband in southeast England, and identifies as bisexual.
References
- 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.
- Guide, British Comedy. "Sara Gibbs". British Comedy Guide.
- Guide, British Comedy (16 December 2024). "The Daily Tism launches autism-themed sketch show". British Comedy Guide.
- Gibbs, Sara (12 October 2018). "What It's Like Being the Only Jew in Town". Hey Alma. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
- "Sara Gibbs". The Soho Agency. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
- 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.
- Gibbs, Sara (7 February 2019). "'Knowing I am autistic has set me free to be me'". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
- "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.
- "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.
- "Comedy writer Sara Gibbs pens autism memoir". British Comedy Guide. 30 October 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
- Gibbs, Sara (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.
External links
- Official website
- "My life-changing autism diagnosis (Kim Chakanetsa interviews Sara Gibbs and Morénike Giwa Onaiwu)". The Conversation, BBC World Service. 19 June 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
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