Sara Cooper

Background

About Sara Cooper

Sara Cooper is a Playwright-Lyricist. Recent highlights: The ASCAP Foundation Lucille and Jack Yellen Award (2021); Commercial musical adaptation of a TBA movie, lyricist (currently in development); Perpetual Sunshine & the Ghost Girls, 5X15, Beck Center/Baldwin Wallace (2021), National Alliance for Musical Theatre 15-Minute Musical Challenge winner (2020); Barrington Stage Company Spark Grant (2020); HoT, Johnny Mercer Foundation Writers Grove, Goodspeed Musicals (2020), New York Theatre Barn New Works Series (2020), concert, Dixon Place (2019); Windows and Breakfast, Lowbrow Opera Collective (2021, 2020); Polyanna,TV pilot, Grand Jury Prize, BOLT, Barnstorm Media (2020); The Memory Show, Benefit Reading, Alzheimer’s Association, The Mercury Theater Chicago (2019), New Bard, London (2016), NEA grant (2013), Transport Group at The Duke on 42nd Street (2013), Water Gate Media, Seoul (2012-2013), Barrington Stage Company (2010), NAMT (2010); Elevator Heart, Moxie Arts (2019), University of San Francisco (2018), Tisch New Musicals (2016); Fault Lines, The Kennedy Center (2018), American Opera Initiative Fellowship, Washington National Opera (2017); New York State Council on the Arts Individual Theatre Artist Commission (2015); Things I Left On Long Island, FringeNYC (2014), Overall Excellence Award: Playwriting (2014), Time Out NY Critics’ Pick (2014); Jonathan Larson Grant, American Theatre Wing (2014). MFA Graduate Musical Theatre Writing, Tisch NYU. Dramatists Guild, ASCAP. http://saracooper.weebly.com