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Fishmarket Theatre Co. is taking on this romp of a play about first loves, bookworms, and Regency-era sex ghosts. Tickets are available here!

My latest 10-minute play, Regis County Invitational Track Meet, was included in the Greenhouse Ensemble's Ten Minute Play Soiree. The piece was directed by Christine McBurney, starring Avani Venkat and Lucy Turner. Read the full program here. 

I'm so excited that Murphys Creek is bringing Insertion to the Murphys, CA community! The show will run April 19 - May 12. 

I had the joy of attending B3 Theater's First Festival of Feminist Theater in Scottsdale, AZ, where Melody was performed by Julie Peterson. You can also read an interview with me & B3 here!

My first show of 2023 will be my short play, Melody, featuring in bkONE's inaugural New Works Festival. Come see it in Industry City this February!

I workshopped my new play The Hand That Feeds You with Forager Theatre Company through their UNEARTH development program. We had a wonderful session and I'm looking forward to working more on the script!

After 2 sold-out performances, I was honored to receive the Best Script Award. The Radio Man team also took home Best Direction (Mackenna Goodrich) and Best Lead Actress (Emma Mineo). 

We open this post-apocalyptic tale of survival at the Connelly Theater in one week. Read the BroadwayWorld press release here. 

Thank you to Courtney Symes for the wonderful write-up. 

"The B Street Theatre has set the gold standard in new comedy development with its world premiere of Insertion by Sarah Groustra."

Read the full article here. 

The show runs through August 13th at the Voris Mainstage. 

The Jane Chambers Award honors plays with feminist themes and significant roles for female actresses. I am overjoyed to be in the company of 16 other incredible finalists!

I am honored to have my play performed at the Connelly Theater (off-Broadway!) this summer with SheNYC alongside an incredible cohort of women & non-binary artists. 

Over the next few months, I'll be developing a comedy about The Donner Party with the writing group Under Construction, facilitated by The Road Theatre in LA. I'm honored to be working alongside this incredible cohort!

Thank you to The Dramatists Guild for this feature. Read more here. 

The Laundry Play will be produced as a part of the Chain Theatre Winter One-Act Festival, directed by Mackenna Goodrich.

Tickets are on sale here (we're Program 8!) and you can use code LAUNDRY for a discount.  

You can see me perform in the ensemble of this heartwarming, multi-faith holiday play, penned by Donald Margulies. The show is produced by the Heights Players.

My play Radio Man is a "second rounder" in the playscript competition at the 2022 Austin Film Festival, meaning it ranked in the top 20% of this year's submissions.

I am so honored that my play Insertion was named the winner of the 2022 New Comedies Festival, and will receive a full production as a part of B Street's mainstage season next summer. This will be my first premiere and I can't think of a better home for this play!

Click here to get your tickets! I had an incredible week in New York City learning and creating alongside the 2022 Nationals cohort. Check out these incredible new plays, written and rehearsed in only 24 hours! Available on-demand August 10th-25th.

Hosted by B Street Theatre Company in Sacramento, come see a staged reading of Insertion followed by a talk-back with the playwright & cast. 

I will be a part of the acting company for the 24 Hour Plays: Nationals, coming up at the end of July. This is the first time Nationals has been presented in-person since 2019!

I am so honored to have been selected for this mentorship program facilitated by Yonder Window Theater Company. I will be working with the Playwright in Residence, the Artistic Director, and a company of actors on my play The Laundry Play.

A self-produced staged reading of Medea, Revisited goes up tonight at Kenyon College. 

Sarah directed a staged reading of The Eliza Script by Alexa Derman, the culmination of Alexa's playwriting residency at Kenyon through StageFemmes. 

Join Al Parker for a conversation with The Parsnip Ship about Radio Man as a part of their Play Club virtual discussion series. 

You can now stream Hangups from today until the end of the year by visiting Playdate Theatre's on-demand streaming website. Tickets are available on a sliding scale. 

Hangups will receive its first production virtually with Playdate Theater's virtual festival Find a Way Or Make One, starring Hayley Orrantia (ABC's The Goldbergs) and Marcus Scribner (ABC's Black-ish). The production is directed by Mark Feuerstein (The West Wing). The performance will be streamed on August 9th at 8pm EST as a fundraiser for two crucial organizations, Color of Change and the YWCA's Covid Relief Fund. Click here to donate and get your link!