Sarah Plotkin collaborates with first time artists, professional artists, and young people to build original theater that celebrates stories of community, connection and creation. She regularly collaborates with playwrights and puppeteers to develop new work, and is committed to the role of collaborative art-making in building equitable, just, and liberated spaces.  She is the founder and lead facilitator of Artist Gym, a unique community-engagement program bringing together professional and first time artists to explore a theme through theater-based exercises.
.  She was also the Artistic Director of Electric Eye Ensemble from 2014-2018, a collaborative theater company exploring American myths and stories through a revisionist, feminist lens.  Sarah has a masters degree in theater education with a focus on community engagement and social justice from Emerson College, and a bachelors degree in directing and literature from Sarah Lawrence College.
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AWARDS AND HONORS
Creative Ageing Pilot Program, Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture, 2019
Creative Space Grant, The Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, 2017
Observership Class, Stage Directors and Choreographers Federation, 2016-2017
Rough Draft Residency, The Drama League, 2016
Activist for Social Development Fellow, All Stars Project of New York, 2014
Dorothy Stickney Theatre Arts Scholarship, Zonta Club of New York, 2014

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