Sarah Galante

Sarah Galante (she/her) is a queer playwright and fat activist based in Brooklyn, where she lives with her spouse and their neurotic corgi, Hoagie. She’s been writing plays since she was nine—each one, she likes to think, a little better than the last.

Full-length plays include Swallow Me Whole (2025 Workshop Production at The Tank, 2025 Bay Area Playwrights Festival Finalist, 2025 National Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist, 2024 Jane Chambers Excellence in Feminist Playwriting Prize Finalist), Body Negative (2025 Workshop Production with Broadway Bods, 2025 Bushwick Starr Reading Series Finalist, 2025 Faultline Theater Company’s Irons in the Fire Reading Series Finalist), Baby Can’t Speak (Workshop with GhostLit Repertory Theater Company), Within Earshot (Independent Residency at the O’Neill Center, Concert at 54 Below), and Hear Me War (Production with the Philadelphia Women’s Theater Festival, Commission from the Women’s Playwriting Cooperative).

Sarah served as the scriptwriter for the National Philharmonic’s 2020–2021 virtual season and the 2021 PBS Holiday Concert Series, creating scripts for performances featuring Norm Lewis, Garth Brooks, and Michelle Obama, filmed everywhere from Mount Vernon to Lincoln Center.

She was a finalist for the inaugural Terrence McNally Recovery Commission and a Core Apprentice at The Playwrights’ Center under the mentorship of Jen Silverman. Sarah creates theater that is fantastical, fat, and irreverent. MFA: NYU '27.