ABOUT

Sarah Keyes (she/her) is a theatre artist, producer, and educator currently splitting time between the Berkshires & New York City. She grew up in Louisville, Kentucky where she got her start at Actors Theatre of Louisville and The Humana Festival of New American Plays. These formative theatrical experiences fostered a lifelong passion for new play development, the importance of regional theaters in their communities, and the power of the arts in education. Sarah trained at Interlochen Arts Academy, Fordham University Lincoln Center, and received a Masters of Fine Arts in Acting from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partnership with PlayMakers Repertory Theatre. She participated in many training programs and apprenticeships including: The Flea, Chautauqua Theatre Company, and Vassar Powerhouse/New York Stage and Film. Growing up in the theatre has driven Sarah to re-examine traditional acting pedagogies in hopes of shifting the artform and the industry to be more equitable and sustainable. This desire has led her to intensively study the Alexander Technique, Intimacy Coordination, Gyrokinesis, and Mindfulness practices which she integrates into her work. Sarah’s peer-reviewed article “An Actress Prepares: How Typecasting for Women in Theatre Perpetuates Cycles of Trauma” has been published in the 2020 Edition of Text & Presentation with McFarland. She currently works at Williams College, where she will be teaching a course called “Performance with Purpose: Introduction to Applied Theatre”. Community engagement is vital to Sarah’s work as a collaborator, and in her free time she is an Artistic Mentor for the Playwright Mentorship Project at Barrington Stage Company and volunteers with Girls, Inc. of the Berkshires. She is a proud member of the Actors Equity Association

 

Recent theatre credits include: Survival of the Unfit (Great Barrington Public Theatre), 10x10 (u/s Barrington Stage Company); The Skin of Our Teeth (TFANA); Sense & Sensibility, Ragtime, Native Son, Life of Galileo, Constellations (PlayMakers Rep); Hair, Little Bunny Foo Foo (Parallel 45); The Mysteries (The Flea); Usual Girls (EST Bloodworks); Horse Girls (Ars Nova Ant Fest); Measure for Measure, Macbeth (Scranton Shakespeare Festival). 

Recent film producing credits include: In Transit, The Bears, Tell That to the Winter Sea, Good Grief, Invisible Girl, and New York: Letters of War.