SARAH MANTELL

Sarah is the recipient of the 2023 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot (Playwrights Horizons). Their other plays include Everything That Never Happened (Baltimore Center Stage, Boston Court Pasadena, Oregon Shakespeare Festival), The Good Guys (Second Stage), Tiny (Seven Devils, Seattle Rep), and Fight Call (Artists Rep, Breaking the Binary).

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. They have received nominations for the Bruntwood Prize, the Weissberger, and the Pulitzer.

Essays 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.

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, Sewanee Writers Conference, MIT, The Public Theater, Breaking the Binary, and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

Teaching credits include 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.

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