Founder & Co-Producing Artistic Director

[she/her] A proud co-founder of Detroit Public Theatre, Sarah has more than 30 years’ experience as a theatre and film producer, performer, and teaching artist. Prior to her work with DPT, Sarah was a producing artist with the Obie, Drama Desk, and Lucille Lortel award-winning Off-Broadway Epic Theatre Ensemble. While at Epic, she oversaw the company’s development department during a period of rapid growth as the budget nearly quadrupled in size, and was also a member of Epic’s acting ensemble, where she performed in more than a dozen Off-Broadway productions, workshops, readings, and Shakespeare Remix productions, and she was a Teaching Artist in Epic’s programs in the New York City Public Schools. In 2013, Sarah relocated to Metro Detroit and worked as an actor with a number of Michigan theatres while developing Detroit Public Theatre alongside DPT’s artistic leadership team and founding board. It was her great honor to have worked as a facilitator in the Shakespeare in Prison program at Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and to have played a role in the program’s choosing DPT as its home. Sarah has been seen onstage at DPT in THE HARASSMENT OF IRIS MALLOY, CRY IT OUT, and EIGHT NIGHTS. She has produced and performed in numerous other critically-acclaimed films and plays in New York City, Michigan, and around the country, and was a founder of Step Up Women’s Network in New York City, where she developed the organization’s arts education programming. Sarah earned her Bachelor of Science in Theatre from Skidmore College.