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: 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, Lightning Rod Special, 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.

She has directed/taught at 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 with her husband John Gasper for category:other, and for the podcast Live From Mount Olympus produced by The Onassis Foundation/ THE TEAM.

Upcoming: directing Racecar Racecar Racecar by Kallan Dana, produced by The Hearth at the Connelly Theater Upstairs.

Currently, Sarah has an original TV series (co-created with Sofya Levitsky-Weitz) in development with Lionsgate and Peacock.

TV:

Abby Glusker, UTA