Sarah Blush directs, writes and develops original projects for theatre, TV and more. Her work — “deliriously funny” (Vogue), “dementedly daffy”, “vibrantly nuts” (The New York Times),  — skews playful, stylized, camp and strange. She likes performance to be brilliant or stupid; ideally both. Fun is paramount.

Select directing: LIONS, developed with Lightning Rod Special, which received a Barrymore nomination for Outstanding Original Production for its Philadelphia Fringe run in 2025, toured to Summerhall in the Edinbugh Fringe in 2026, and was a finalist for the Steinberg/ ATCA New Play Award; RACECAR RACECAR RACECAR by Kallan Dana, produced by The Hearth (A.R.T./NY); Bailey Williams’ COACH COACH (Clubbed Thumb Summerworks), EVENTS, produced by The Hearth (The Brick) & I THOUGHT I WOULD DIE BUT I DIDN’T (The Tank, Time Out Critics Pick); SEHNSUCHT (JACK, New York Times Critics Pick).

Upcoming: directing THE EXECUTRIX by Emma Horwitz, produced by Two Sisters at Target Margin (Oct-Nov 2026); co-directing THE MUSHROOM with Normandy Sherwood and Nikki Calonge, co-presented by New Georges and LMCC on Governor’s Island in Under the Radar (Jan 2027).

Sarah is a recipient of the Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellowship, New Georges Audrey Residency, Colt Coeur Artist Residency, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, New York Society Library’s Emerging Female Artist Grant, as well as residencies at Mercury Store, Coffey Street, Barn Arts and Williamstown Theatre Festival. She has developed new plays with P73, Fault Line, Ars Nova, Rattlestick, The O’Neill, Playwrights’ Center, HERE, The Bushwick Starr, The Public Theater and many more.

She regularly guest directs and teaches, and has done so at Brown MFA, NYU Graduate Acting, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, University at Albany, and NYU- Meisner, Playwrights Horizons and Atlantic studios.

In addition to theatre, she has developed projects in virtual reality, experimental audio, interactive experiments in Google Sheets (FUTURE WIFE: PARTY IN A SPREADSHEET w/ reid tang, produced by New Georges), and guest directed the award-winning 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