Sarah Sander

Discipline: Playwriting

Based In: Brooklyn, NY

Year at Millay: 2013

Awards/Honors: Fellow, Core Writers Program, Playwrights’ Center, New York, NY (2023–2026); Fellow, The DGF National Fellows Program, Dramatists Guild Foundation, New York, NY (2015); Fellow, MacDowell, Peterborough, NH (2014); Artist-in-Residence, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Brewster, NY (2014).

Website: https://newplayexchange.org/users/10132/sarah-sander

Sarah Sander is a Brooklyn-based playwright whose work has been developed and produced at Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Columbia University, |the claque|, DC Arts Center, Florida Studio Theatre, Inkwell Theatre, Kennedy Center, Lark, NYSF, Page 73 Productions, The Public Theater, Project Y, Raven Theater, and Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival. She’s a Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center, a Colt Coeur Resident Artist, a New Georges Affiliated Artist and alumnus of the Dramatist Guild Fellowship, Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group, and P73’s Interstate 73. Sander has held residencies at MacDowell, SPACE at Ryder Farm, Stillwright (Erik Ehn’s Silent Retreat) and Yaddo. Sander was a Finalist for the ATL’s Heideman Award, Clubbed Thumb’s Biennial Commission, Ingram New Works Fellowship, Jerome Fellowship, Juilliard, Leah Ryan FEWW Prize, P73’s Fellowship, Playwrights Realm Fellowship, Premier Stages, Trustus Theatre Festival, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and Source Theater Festival. Sander was nominated for Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, NTC’s Stavis Award and Williamstown’s Weissberger Award. Sander holds and MFA from the University of Iowa.