Author
Sara Farrington
Sara Farrington (Playwright) NYC/NJ playwright, co-founder of Foxy Films theater company w/ Reid Farrington. MFA: Brooklyn College with 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 wrote the book & lyrics for DR. UNCANNY PRESENTS: MOREAU ’96, a musical composed by David Van Tieghem and directed by Reid Farrington, adapted from Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau, directed by David Gregory, courtesy of Severin Films. Sara’s play CASABLANCABOX was commissioned as part of HARP @ HERE and nominated for two Drama Desk Awards. Her work has been called “dazzling” by The New Yorker and “brave, almost foolhardy” by The New York Times. Her plays have toured internationally, most recently A TROJAN WOMAN, her version of the Euripides, which toured to Athens, Belfast, London, Luna Stage in NJ, Powerhouse Theater @ Vassar and APAP showings in NYC. Other favorite plays include LOOK OUT (North American Cultural Lab Deep Space Residency) DORA MAAR (Mercury Store Residency), BRANDOCAPOTE (The Tank 2019), MENDACITY (film version, official selection of the NYC Indie Theater Film Festival), THE RETURN (commission from the Metropolitan Museum of Art), NEAR VICKSBURG (Incubator Arts Project) and THE RISE & FALL OF MILES & MILO (FringeNYC Award for Outstanding Playwriting). Subscribe to her cathartic Substack @TheaterIsHard & visit www.ladyfarrington.com
