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Sarah Sanders

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At The Orchard Project: 2024

About

Sarah Sanders (she/her) is a queer Jewish writer and performer from the middle of Montana. Her work is likely to include some combination of queer romance, Jewish storytelling, music, and humor.

She was the Script Coordinator for the FX series DYING FOR SEX, created by Liz Meriwether and Kim Rosenstock. Prior to that, Sarah was a Performance Fellow with the Queer|Art|Mentorship program, developing a theatre piece with mentor Mashuq Mushtaq Deen, and a lyricist with the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop. Her solo show Ashkenazi Seance has been produced at The Brick, Union Temple House, and The Tank in New York, and the Pearlstone Center in Maryland.

Sarah has been an Artist in Residence at Dixon Place, and developed new theatrical work with people and groups including The Bengsons, Christian De Gré Cárdenas, Fresh Ground Pepper’s BRB Retreat, The Neighborhood: An Urban Center for Jewish Life, and Undiscovered Countries. Her pilot “Off Script” was a semi-finalist for the 2022 OUTFest Screenwriting Lab and New Jewish Culture Fellowship.

Sarah has a postgraduate degree in professional acting from LAMDA (the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art) and a BA in theatre and comparative literature from Williams College.

At The Orchard Project

  1. 2024
    Episodic Lab

    The People's Food Coop

    When members of the anticapitalist grocery cooperative The People's Food Coop learn that a fancy restaurant wants to take over their lease, they fight back. An intergenerational workplace comedy about community, Brooklyn, and the joy of fairly-priced groceries.

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