SARAH MANTELL
Sarah is the recipient of the 2023 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot (Playwrights Horizons), longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize for The Good Guys (Second Stage), and was first-runner up for the Leah Ryan Award for Everything That Never Happened (Baltimore Center Stage, Boston Court Pasadena, Oregon Shakespeare Festival). Their other plays include Tiny (Seven Devils, Seattle Rep), and Fight Call (Breaking the Binary, Artists Rep.)
They have been awarded residencies with MacDowell, Yaddo, Wildacres, Hedgebrook, Fresh Ground Pepper, Jentel, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and SPACE on Ryder Farm, as well as a Toulmin grant, an Edgerton Foundation grant, and a Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship.
Sarah began their career in literary offices at the Magic Theatre, Geva Theatre, and People's Light. They went on to launch the education department at PlayPenn, inventing signature programs like Rent a Dramaturg, as well as dramaturging for the annual conference. They have been a judge for new work submissions across the country including Hedgebrook, The Public Theater, Sewanee Writers Conference, MIT, Breaking the Binary, and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Essays on supporting new work include "Read This Before You Have a Reading" for the Playwrights Realm and “Touch the Wound, But Don’t Live There” in American Theatre Magazine.
Teaching credits: Wesleyan University, SUNY Purchase, Occidental College, University of Vermont, Worcester Polytechnic, New Haven's Cooperative Arts High School. They were also on staff at Middlebury College’s Innovation Hub.
BFA Rhode Island School of Design. MFA Yale School of Drama.
REPRESENTATION
Theatre
Skyler Gray
The Gersh Agency
sgray@gersh.com
212.634.8113
Television
Vern Co
The Gersh Agency
vco@gersh.com
212.634.8190
Eliza Wheeler
The Gersh Agency
ewheeler@gersh.com
310.205.5836
TV/Film Management
Britton Rizzio
Curate Management
britton@thisiscurate.com
310.291.8860
FAQ
Can I buy your plays somewhere?
Nope, they’re not published yet.
What? How??
I don’t know. Our profession is infinitely confusing.
So then how do I read your plays?
90% of the time I will send them to you. Just message me here.
I am a professor. Can I teach one of your plays?
Absolutely. Contact my agent Skyler at Gersh. He is very nice and will share a PDF and charge you $5 per student so I get paid a little bit for writing them.
I work for the company that makes:
a) Hybrid Technica .04 Pens
b) Fabriano Staplebound 11.7 x 8.3 Blank Notebooks
c) Jarlsberg cheese
Can we sponsor you?
Yes. Please put Jarlsberg in the subject line.
Can I hire you to dramaturg or to teach?
I do both of those things. I’ve taught college courses and one-off masterclasses. I’ve dramaturged for new play workshops and for productions. I like helping other people make the plays that only they can make.
I am Shakespeare. You fucked up my villains. I will haunt you.
I’m looking forward to it. Please put Jarlsberg in the subject line.
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