Sara Hardy Sara Hardy was first introduced to Edna Walling when she was an actor performing the title role in a play called Edna in the Garden in 1989. Like Edna, she was born in Devon but has ended up making Australia her home. She traied at the Dartington College of Arts and worked with theatre companies all over Britain. In recent years she has become a fully-fledged playwright and her largely biographical pieces including Vita! - A Fantasy and She of the Electrolux have been performed in Britain, USA, Canada and Australia. In 2004, Sara was awarded the inaugural Peter Blazey Fellowship at the University of Melbourne for her work on Edna Walling. Read More Read Less