Sally Cookson trained at LAMDA, working as an actor for ten years and co-founding the Bristol Old Vic Youth theatre before embarking on a freelance directing career.

She is an associate artist at Bristol Old Vic where productions include Wonder Boy, Jane Eyre, Peter Pan, Treasure Island, The Boy Who Cried Wolf to name a few.

She has received four Olivier nominations for Peter Pan (National Theatre/Bristol Old Vic); Hetty Feather (Kenny Wax Productions); Cinderella a Fairytale (Tobacco Factory Theatre) and A Monster Calls (Old Vic London) which won Best Family and Entertainment in 2019.

She recently opened Birthmarked at the Edinburgh Fringe and will be working in Tokyo, Japan in the New Year on a Japanese adaptation of her hit show A Monster Calls, before remounting Wonder Boy for a UK tour.