Since 2017 she has had the role of Artistic Director of Melbourne arts company Chamber Made, who are creators of original works at the meeting point of sound, music and performance.
Saulwick was a founding member of outdoor performance companies, The Hunting Party and Strange Fruit, with which she toured in Europe and Central America through the early 1990s.
[5] In 1997 and 1999 Saulwick worked in Vienna with Austrian actor Justus Neumann on two productions, Don Quixote and Die Bibel im Lusthaus Zu Wein.
This solo work was first shown at Arts House in 2010[13] and explored sensations to do with fear and a woman's sense of threat from a stranger in a variety of contexts.
[17] Featuring in a schedule of Australian contemporary performance and dance, there was a presentation of this piece in 2014 at acclaimed arts venue Tramway, Glasgow, UK.
[24] The piece explores the relationship between parents and their children as it evolves through a lifetime and features contemporary performance, musical composition for voices, with layered edits from interviews.
[44] Saulwick also works extensively with her partner, Peter Knight,[45] who is an internationally renowned composer, musician and artistic director of Australian Art Orchestra.
[46] Together they have made a number of works: Pin Drop, which won a Green Room Award in 2010 for Outstanding Production in Alternative and Hybrid Performance and was nominated for Best Composition and Sound Design.
[47] The pair was also commissioned by the ABC to turn this project into a radiophonic work[48] Pin Drop toured Australia and also played in Glasgow at Tramway.
[54] In December 2014 a transcript of a conversation on the topic of performance and technology between Suzanne Kersten, David Pledger, Julian Rickert, Tamara Saulwick, Hellen Sky, Gorkem Acaroglu and Glennat D’Cruz at the Mechanics Institute, Brunswick, on Saturday 3 November 2013 entitled Working with technology/making technology work: A round table discussion was published in Australasian Drama Studies, Issue 65[55] 2014 also saw the publishing of Pin Drop: A live work for solo performer and 11 voices, her contribution to a collection of essays called ‘Testimony, Witness, Authority: The politics and poetics of experience.