About Sarah
Sarah Myers is a writer, educator, and theater artist whose work ranges from lyric essays to devised theater to solo performances that play with the boundaries of self. Her nonfiction has appeared in Fourth Genre, New Letters, Cleaver, Studies in Musical Theatre, TDR: The Drama Review, and The Reflective Teaching Artist, and her plays have been published by Playscripts, Inc., Spout Press, and New Madrid. Her work as a playwright, dramaturg, actor, and director has appeared in New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, Austin, Philadelphia, and Bethlehem (Palestine). She has collaborated as a playwright with Sod House Theater and Wonderlust Productions, and she is a former company member of Workhaus Collective and Rude Mechanicals.
Sarah spent twelve years on faculty in the Theater Department and MFA Creative Writing Program at Augsburg University, where she devised original productions with students and taught courses in playwriting, script analysis, theater histories, acting & improv, and community-engaged performance. She went on to found and direct the University Programs and Partnerships initiative at the Playwrights’ Center, where she created a one-of-a-kind program for college students to take accredited courses in playwriting, television writing, and writing for digital media taught by professional writers across the country. Sarah double-majored in theatre and English at Northwestern University, and she earned an MFA in playwriting and a PhD in theater from The University of Texas at Austin.
