Sarah Conn
Conference Speaker
Position: Artistic Producer
Company: National Arts Centre - Ottawa

Sarah Conn is an interdisciplinary performance creator, producer, and curator. Her performance installations have toured to festivals and galleries in Canada, Ireland, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, and England. Her research and writing focus on curatorial frameworks, creative process design, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Sarah joined the NAC's National Creation Fund as the inaugural Artistic Associate and has recently been appointed as the Fund's Artistic Producer. Through her roles at the Fund, she has collaborated with artists across Canada to create 93 new performance works, develop new creation methodologies, and drive emergent curatorial practices. She has developed partnerships with industry leaders including artEquity, the Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, and Fogo Island Arts. Sarah holds a MA in Performance Curation from the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance. She is a recipient of the Ontario Arts Council’s Pauline McGibbon Award and is a Siminovitch Prize Protégé.

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