Sarah Blush directs, writes and develops original projects for theatreTV and more. Her work – described by The New York Times as dementedly daffy and vibrantly nuts – skews playful, stylized, funny, grim and strange. She likes performance to be brilliant or stupid; ideally both. Fun is paramount.

Select directing: Lions, developed with Lightning Rod Special (Philly Fringe) Kallan Dana’s Racecar Racecar Racecar (ART/NY); Bailey Williams’ Coach Coach (Clubbed Thumb), Events (The Brick), & I thought I would die but I didn’t (The Tank; Time Out Critics Pick); Future Wife: Party in a Spreadsheet w/ reid tang (New Georges); Sehnsucht (JACK; NYT Critics Pick). Additionally, she has developed and presented new plays and/or devised work with Ars Nova, The O’Neill, The Playwrights’ Center, Bushwick Starr, Williamstown Theatre Festival, 59E59, HERE, The Public Theater and more.

Sarah is a recipient of the Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellowship, New Georges Audrey Residency, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Colt Coeur Artist Residency, Barn Arts Residency, and New York Society Library’s Emerging Female Artist Grant.

Teaching/ Guest Directing: NYU Graduate Acting, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, UAlbany, and NYU Meisner, Playwrights Horizons, and Atlantic studios.

In addition to theatre, Sarah has directed virtual reality, interactive experiments in Google Sheets, experimental audio for category:other, and for the podcast Live From Mount Olympus produced by The Onassis Foundation/ THE TEAM.

Sarah’s original TV pilot PREMONITION, an erotic thriller-meets-stoner romcom (co-written with Sofya Levitsky-Weitz), was developed with Lionsgate and Peacock.

TV:

Abby Glusker, UTA