Book

Bartley, Sarah, McAvinchey, Caoimhe, Dean, Deborah and Greene, Anne-marie (2024) Clean Break Theatre Company. Elements in Women Theatre Makers . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9781009525855 (In Press)

Mullan, Sarah Jane and Bartley, Sarah (2024) Crisis theatre and the living newspaper. Elements in Theatre, Performance and the Political . Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Elements), Cambridge. ISBN 9781009525817

Book Chapter

Bartley, Sarah (2026) Carceral Performance, Histories of Prison Arts, and Liberatory Memory Work in Rideout’s The Ballad of The Whistling Man. In: Carceral Arts. Bristol University Press, Bristol. (In Press)

Bartley, Sarah and Mcvinchey, Caoimhe (2025) Rewriting women, crime and punishment: commissioning and collaborative processes in the work of Clean Break Theatre Company. In: The Methuen Drama Handbook of Women in Contemporary British Theatre. Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, London, pp. 297-311. ISBN 9781350360259

Bartley, Sarah (2023) ‘What does transformative justice look like?’: Clean Break Theatre Company and the Young Artists Development Programme. In: The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Young People. Routledge companions . Routledge, London, pp. 651-673. ISBN 9781032348865

Article

Bartley, Sarah (2026) Breaching the Record: Rideout and the Complexities of Archiving Performance in the Criminal Justice System. Theatre Survey, 67 (2). (In Press)