Sarah Galante

Sarah Galante (she/her) is a queer playwright and fat activist based in Brooklyn, with her spouse and neurotic corgi named Hoagie. She earned her BFA in Playwriting from The University of the Arts in 2016 and has been writing plays since she was nine, she likes to think, each a little better than the last. Sarah served as the scriptwriter for the National Philharmonic’s 2020–2021 virtual season and the 2021 PBS Holiday Concert Series, crafting scripts Norm Lewis, Garth Brooks, and Michelle Obama. Her work has been supported by The Playwrights' Center, PBS, The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Lincoln Center, 54 Below, The Tank, Dixon Place, The Women's Playwriting Cooperative, Simpatico Theatre Company, GhostLit Repertory Theatre Company and more. 

She is a proud finalist for the 2024 Jane Chambers Excellence in Feminist Playwriting Prize, the inaugural Terrence McNally Recovery Commission, the 2025 Bushwick Starr Reading Series, Faultline Theater Company's Irons in the Fire Series, the Moxie Arts Incubator and the Life Jacket Theatre Companies Writers Room. She is currently a semi-finalist for the 2025 National Playwrights Conference.

Sarah spends her summers at the number one rated arts camp in North America - Camp Ballibay for the Fine and Performing Arts where she serves as the camp director and head of the creative writing and theater programs.

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