Sara Farrington

SARA FARRINGTON (Playwright) NYC & NJ based playwright, co-founder of Foxy Films theater co. w/ Reid Farrington. MFA: Brooklyn College w/ Mac Wellman. Publications: The Lost Conversation: Interviews with an Enduring Avant-Garde (53rd State Press), A Trojan Woman, Mickey & Sage (both @ Broadway Play Publishing, Inc), Leisure, Labor, Lust (Next Stage Press). Sara’s plays have been nominated for two Drama Desk Awards, called "dazzling" by The New Yorker and "brave, almost foolhardy" by the NY Times. Upcoming: Book & lyrics for Dr. Uncanny Presents: Moreau '96, a musical adaptation of the documentary Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau, (dir David Gregory, courtesy of Severin Films) is directed by Reid Farrington and composed by David Van Tieghem, which will be workshopped Fall 2025. Recent work includes: Look Out, A Trojan Woman, Dora Maar, Lucky Breaks, CasablancaBox (2 time Drama Desk nominated), BrandoCapote, Leisure, Labor, Lust, The Return (commissioned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art), Near Vicksburg, Honduras, The Rise & Fall of Miles & Milo (Winner: Award for Outstanding Playwriting @ FringeNYC) Film: Mendacity, dir: Reid Farrington, official selection of 2023 New York Indie Theater Film Festival @ New Ohio Theatre. Residencies: NaCL Artist-in-Residence, The Mercury Store, HARP @ HERE Arts, Now-In-Process @ New Ohio Theatre, AFO Solo Collective, Dragon’s Egg. Work as script supervisor, costume designer & co. manager for Foxy Films include Tyson vs. Ali, Gin & “It,” A Christmas Carol, The Passion Project. Her work independently & w/ Foxy Films have toured to Copenhagen, Budapest, Vancouver, Columbus, OH, Lenox, MA, Omaha, NE, Nyack, NY & Athens, GR, Belfast, Northern Ireland and London. Support: NYSCA, NJCOA, Venturous Fund, Axe-Houghton, MediaTHE, Arch & Bruce Brown & others. By day, Sara is a commercial voice actor with DDONY’s Voice Over Division and audiobook narrator for Audible, Recorded Books and The National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled at The Library of Congress. She’s also a champion of #MeToo, momma to Jack & Levi. www.ladyfarrington.com & Substack: @TheaterIsHard.