Sarah Galante

Sarah Galante (she/her) is a queer playwright based in Brooklyn, where she lives with her spouse and their neurotic corgi, Hoagie. She is the recipient of the 2025 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award and the Jean Kennedy Smith Award, a 2026 Writer in Residence with the New Harmony Project, a recipient of a Kennedy Center New Play Commission, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and a former Core Apprentice at the Playwrights’ Center, where she was mentored by Jen Silverman.

In 2026, Galante was named a semi-finalist for the Relentless Award (MELINDA/Melissa/melody), the Bay Area Playwrights Festival (Swallow Me Whole), and the Blue Ink Award (Body Negative). Her plays Swallow Me Whole and Body Negative have received workshop productions in New York City, both directed by Lauren Zeftel.

Galante has collaborated with the Playwrights’ Center, Lincoln Center, PBS, The Tank, New Harmony Project, The American Playwriting Foundation, The Kennedy Center, Breaking and Entering Theater Collective, The Playwrights Foundation, Parity Productions, the Women’s Playwriting Collective, and others. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.