Sara Gibbs
Sara Gibbs is a British comedy script writer, author of a memoir and autism advocate.
Biography
For 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. She is the co-founder 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 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 experiences, behaviour and idiocyncracies.