
About
Sarah Gancher is an Obie Award-winning playwright whose work has been seen on stages worldwide including London’s National Theatre, Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre, The Public Theatre, New York Theater Workshop, Steppenwolf, Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Geva, Hartford Stage, RoundHouse (DC), Seattle Rep, and Ars Nova. (Upcoming: Playwrights Horizons Soundstage and Vineyard Theatre/En Garde Arts.) Recent work includes Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy (Geva Theater, dir. Darko Tresnjak; online production for Theaterworks Hartford/Theatre Squared/The Civilians, dir. Jared Mezzocchi & Elizabeth Williamson; NY Times Top 10 Theater of 2020.) Her musicals include The Lucky Ones and Hundred Days (with The Bengsons and Anne Kauffman) and Mission Drift (with Heather Christian, Rachel Chavkin and The TEAM.) Honors include the Richard Rodgers Award, New York Stage and Film Founders’ Award, The Edgerton Foundation New Play Award, the James Stevenson Prize for Comedy, the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Award, a Toulmin Foundation commission, several Lortel, Drama Desk, and Drama League nominations, and the AR Gurney Prize. An alumna of Ars Nova Play Group, WP Lab, P73, The Playwrights’ Realm, and the OP Greenhouse Lab, she is a current resident at New Dramatists. She also plays bluegrass fiddle and jazz violin. MFA: NYU.
At The Orchard Project
- 2023Performance Lab
Eugene Onegin: A Bluegrass Musical
A girl who dreams of writing songs falls for a magnetic but jaded touring musician in this bluegrass adaptation of Pushkin's novel-in-verse and Tchaikovsky's opera set in 1940s rural Arkansas.
- 2020Greenhouse
with playwright
