BIO:

 

Sarah is a bookwriter, lyricist, and composer for musical theatre.  She lives in Silver Spring, MD with her husband and two young sons.

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Sarah grew up in Williamstown, MA.  She majored in music at Yale University and received her M.F.A. from the Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. 

 

Sarah's musical USHER, co-written with Molly Fox (and based on Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher") was named “Outstanding Musical” at the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival and received a full production in Washington D.C. in 2014 by Pallas Theatre Collective.  DAMASCUS SQUARE, co-written with Oran Eldor and Shai Baitel, received a full production at the Axelrod Performing Arts Center in 2015 and was a finalist for the 2016 Kleban Prize.  BECOMING DAVID, written with Nick Myers, received an Equity reading at the Dramatists Guild in 2016 and was a finalist for the 2017 Richard Rodgers Award.  Sarah's newest musical, THE BOOK OF HOLDING ON, received two Equity readings in New York and a full production over Zoom at Santa Clara University in 2021. 

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Sarah is passionate about teaching music and drama to children and teenagers.  She has led mini-musical-writing workshops at McCallum Fine Arts Academy, Camp Arena Stage, and Boston Children's Theatre, in which she has guided groups of students through writing and performing their own short musicals.