Sarah Isbister
Summer Ensemble 2026
Designer
Sarah Isbister is a multi disciplined theatre technician specializing in costume construction, props fabrication and scenic painting. She takes on many side projects including cosplay and fibre arts.
She is apart of Summer ensemble 2026
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About Sarah
Sarah Isbister is a multi disciplined theatre technician specializing in costume construction, props fabrication, scenic painting, with additional skills in set building. In addition to her theatre work, she is an aspiring cosplayer having created so far original costumes and characters from various popular media. She has many plans for future projects including designing and building costumes inspired by various streams of popular media.
She is also a self taught Fiber artist specializing in crochet, knit, embroider, and yarn spinning. She is currently expanding her knowledge on the discipline to eventually become comfortable with natural dying and other ventures. Sarah continues to learn more about fibre arts through mediums such as nålbinding, bobbing lace, and needle lace.
Sarah aspires to be a fashion artist, intending to use her various skills in garment construction, as well as props fabrication to create wearable pieces.
Sarah is a member of the Summer Ensemble 2026 program.
Education
Sarah did technical production for the preforming arts industry at Sheridan College, specializing in costume construction, props fabrication and scenic painting. She also has additional skills in carpentry and set building.
At Sheridan, she learned to make props out of various materials including cardboard and foam; create silicone molds from scratch; and use various materials such resins and plasters to create casts.
Work Experience
Recently, Sarah did an internship at the national ballet of Canada in the wardrobe department where she worked with the maintenance of costumes.
In a theatre located in Newfoundland and Labrador, Sarah worked as the assistant carpenter, props person, changeover crew chief and scenic painter.
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Where Did You Grow Up?
I grew up in Scarborough and Markham, my childhood I would say a generic one.
Where Did You Grow Up?
I grew up in Scarborough and Markham, my childhood I would say a generic one.
What is your favourite book(s) and why?
My favourite book was Eleanor and Park, it was the first real book I was actually interested in reading about. This book was given to me in my ninth grade English class as my book study. It was a soapy love story book in my opinion did not get the right ending.
What are your hobbies? What is something that you are passionate about?
I love the outdoors, biking is my favourite thing to do in the world. It just feels so liberating to go out and bike wherever you want whenever you want. The feeling of the wind when you bike down the hill, the small off beaten paths you can explore. The tress, grass, water that surrounds you while you casually bike down the trail. Climbing that big mountain that took every breath out of you to complete. Then looking back and seeing how high you climbed. Rewarding yourself with a big down hill you get to enjoy the powers of gravity as you quickly descend down the mountain. Biking forces me to fight against myself mentality and physically, pushing myself to the limits on a mountain or a strong windy day. It forces me to not give up and allows me to have perseverance and to keep peddling harder and faster. Another thing I like is nature, connecting to earth and realizing that without earth you will not exist. Allowing the sounds of birds tweeting and trees rustling while you walk down the trail and crunch on leaves.
What is a new skill you have always wanted to learn and why?
What is something that you did that you are proud of?
Being the stage manager for my local high school musical! It was a very fun and exhausting experience but I was very proud of it. I got the chance to be basically in charge of the school musical in my final year of high school. It was very rewarding to me as I get to watch the whole audience stand up and give a standing ovation to the whole class. And it was a great way to spend some time with my fellow graduating students and students who had interest in theatre and musicals.
Do you have any advice for someone aspiring to enter your field?
The everything out and see what you like, once you know what you like try to do that as much as you can. Try to do everything to the best of your opportunity and always remember it’s better to be safe than sorry. So always ask questions, never give up, it’s all about you. And remember that with the internet nowadays you can always search up how to do X and whatsoever. Depending on you interests there might be some skills that you can develop without needing expensive equipment, software that you can download for free and try to learn how to use it.