was born in Zurich. After attending the Zurich School of Arts and Crafts and training as a graphic designer, she worked as an assistant set designer at the Schauspielhaus Zurich. Since then she has worked as a freelance stage and costume designer, and in 2009 Sara Giancane was nominated for Stage Design of the Year in the trade magazine Theater heute. She has a long-standing collaboration with the directors Barbara Weber, Rafael Sanchez and Meret Matter, whom she has artistically accompanied on many projects. Her work has taken her to numerous theaters in Germany and Switzerland, including Schauspielhaus Köln, Theater Neumarkt Zürich and Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin.
At the Münchner Kammerspiele she designed the stage set for Barbara Weber's production of Bonnie and Clyde. In the 2014/15 season at Schauspielhaus Zürich, she was responsible for the costumes for Kasimir und Caroline, also directed by Barbara Weber. She also designed the sets for the family plays Die Odyssee and Der Teufel mit den drei golden Haaren at Schauspielhaus Zürich, directed by Meret Matter. For The Great Tragedy of Female Power, directed by Pınar Karabulut at Theater Neumarkt, she designed the sets and costumes for the 2017/18 season. In the 2017/18 season, she also designed the costume design for the family play Ronja, the Robber's Daughter as well as the stage and costume for Fathers, both directed by Max Merker. In 2018, she designed the costumes for a film for the first time, namely for Mare, the new feature film by Andrea Štaka. At the Pula Croatia Film Festival 2020 she received the award for best costume design “Mare”.
In the 2018/19 season, she developed stage and costume designs for How to Date a Feminist, directed by Rafael Sanchez, at Schauspielhaus Köln.
At the Stadttheater Bern, she designed the stage and costumes for the children's play Cengalo, der Gletscherfloh, directed by Meret Matter, in 2019
She was responsible for the costume design and set for Michael Koch's feature film drii Winter, which premiered at the 72nd Berlinale. drii Winter won the Swiss Film Award in 2023.
Sara Giancane designed stage and costumes for the production Der Spieler, directed by Pınar Karabulut at Theater Basel in the 21/22 season.
In 2022 she is working on the costume design for the Swiss television series Neumatt 2, again directed by Andrea Štaka and Christian Johannes Koch. In fall 2022 she developed the costume design at the Münchner Kammerspiele das Erbe directed by Pınar Karabulut.
2023 she designed the costume design for the new Swiss feature film by Lisa Brühlmann When we Were Sisters (premiere Zurich Film Festival 2024).
2024 she developed the costume design for the opera at the Stadttheater Bern, Die Entführung aus dem Serail by Amadeus Mozart, directed by Barbara Weber. She will also be designing the costume and set design for the play Prima Facie at the Schauspielhaus Zürich in collaboration with Barbara Weber.