Hime acted, stage-managed and handled costumes and props as a UTM theatre student before building a screen career, including all three seasons of the award-winning comedy series Pink is In.
Watching TIFF films shaped by their own lead actors, and drawing on her years of chronic pelvic pain and struggles to be taken seriously, she decided to make her own: Alice is Fine follows a young woman with debilitating pain confronting gender bias in health care. “I felt this itch to have more in my career than acting,” she says.
Fellow UTM alum Bryn Kennedy (BA 2017) co-produced, and Ben Steele Caldwell (BA 2020), of Ginny & Georgia, plays a medical student. Hime wove in moments of humour to highlight the absurdity of what Alice endures.
Reported from How UTM set alum Sarah Hime up for success as a filmmaker, by Megan Easton (U of T Alumni News, February 4, 2026).
More from the original reporting: alumni.utoronto.ca/news/utm-set-alum-Sarah-Hime-up-for-filmmaking-success