Sara Cooper

Biography

Sara Cooper is a Playwright-Lyricist. Recent highlights: Perpetual Sunshine & the Ghost Girls, Festival of New Musicals, Village Theatre (2023), Richard Rodgers Award (2022); National Alliance for Musical Theatre Festival of New Musicals (2022), Rhinebeck Writers Retreat (2021), NYTB New Works (2021), 5X15, Beck Center/Baldwin Wallace (2021), NAMT 15-Minute Challenge winner (2020); ASCAP Foundation Lucille and Jack Yellen Award (2021); commercial adaptation of major motion picture, lyricist (TBA); HoT, Festival of New Musicals, Goodspeed Musicals (2022), Johnny Mercer Foundation Writers Grove (2020), New York Theatre Barn New Works (2020); The Memory Show, LAMB Theatre (2022), Benefit Reading, Alzheimer’s Association, The Mercury Theater Chicago (2019), New Bard, London (2016), Transport Group, The Duke on 42nd Street (2013), Water Gate Media, Seoul (2012-2013), Barrington Stage Company (2010), NAMT (2010); Barrington Stage Company Spark Grant (2020); Windows and Breakfast, Lowbrow Opera Collective (2021, 2020); Polyanna, Grand Jury Prize, Barnstorm Media (2020); Elevator Heart, Moxie Arts (2019), USF (2018), Tisch New Musicals (2016); Fault Lines, Kennedy Center (2018), American Opera Initiative (2017); Things I Left On Long Island, FringeNYC (2014), Overall Excellence Award: Playwriting (2014), TimeOut NY Critics’ Pick (2014); Jonathan Larson Grant, American Theatre Wing (2014). MFA Graduate Musical Theatre Writing, NYU. Dramatists Guild, ASCAP. http://saracooper.me