About Sarah

 
 

Height: 5’8

Eyes: Green

New York, NY | Cambridge, MA

Vocal training

Joyce Hall, Tom Jones

Acting training

Atlantic Acting School, Stonestreet Studios NYC, Harvard University, Williamstown Theater Festival

Sarah Rossman was born in NY, NY where she grew up doing professional theatre. After graduating from The Hackley School in 2014, Sarah completed the Atlantic Acting School’s year-long Evening Conservatory program. Currently, Sarah is a junior at Harvard University pursuing a B.A. in Theatre, Dance, and Media. She is primarily an actor, but also a vocalist, published lyricist, skilled improviser, and mental health activist.

Contact:

sarahrossman8@gmail.com

Performance Resume

 
 

2019

Arcadia (Hannah Jarvis)

harvard university, Loeb experimental theater

dir.Kier zimmerman

2018

Next to Normal (Diana Goodman)

a harvard theater, dance, and media department production in Farkas hall

dir.Kier zimmerman, prod. sarah rossman

What the Market Will Bear (Nan)

Williamstown theater festival directing intern projects

Dir. Zoe Golub-sass

Late Night Cabaret Series (Featured Soloist)

williamstown theater festival

dir. cody owen stine

Reception Honoring Michael Friedman (Featured Soloist)

the signet society at Harvard university

Dir. Brian ge

2017

Sweeney Todd (Adolfo Pirelli)

A.r.t. oberon, harvard radcliffe dramatic club

dir. julius wade

Gypsy (Louise)

Harvard college musical theater association,

A.r.t. loeb mainstage

dir. caro ribeiro

Cabaret (Fraulein Schneider)

cambridge queenshead pub at harvard,

the goat exchange

dir. mitchell polonsky

Pops Finds the Wild Things (Lead Vocalist)

Harvard pops orchestra

lowell lecture hall

dir. allen Feinstein


2016

Polaroid Stories (Philomel)

harvard radcliffe dramatic club,

a.r.t. loeb mainstage

dir. jacqui parker

2015

Nine (Liliane La Fleur)

Harvard radcliffe dramatic club,

a.r.t. loeb mainstage

dir. joey longstreet

Amazing the Change (Sarah)

atlantic theater company

linda gross theatre

dir. andy schneeflock

 

Lyricist

American Repertory Theater/ The Goat Exchange

CAMBRIDGE, MA

FALL 2018

The Emperor’s New Clothes

  • Lyricist on original children’s musical as part of the ART’s Loeb Mainstage Season (prod. Diane Borger, dir. Mitch Polonsky)

  • Assistant Vocal Director

Williamstown Theater Festival

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA

SUMMER 2018

Itchin’  for an Itch

  • Co-lyricist and co-composer on original 15 min musical (with Jordan Knitzer)

Harvard Theater, Dance, and Media Department

CAMBRIDGE, MA

FALL 2017-SPRING 2018

Looney Bin

  • Developed libretto for full-length comedic musical adaptation of a journal I kept during residential psychiatric treatment

Production Manager

Harvard College Musical Theater Association

CAMBRIDGE, MA

FALL 2017 - WINTER 2019

President/Producer

  • Oversaw selection, development and production of two full-scale musicals (Chicago on the Loeb Mainstage, Dogfight in the Ex)

  • Produced three themed cabaret evenings in the Signet open to all interested students (Transformative Experiences, Disney, and High School Musical)

  • Scheduled and lead weekly visionary/planning meetings with board members

  • Lead board in recruitment, selection, and organization of staff for biannual musicals

Harvard Theater, Dance, and Media Department

CAMBRIDGE, MA

FALL 2018

Producer of next to normal

  • Designed budget, applied for grants 

  • Assembled production team 

  • Casting 

  • Created schedule and assistant tech directed for load in and build


Director

Harvard College Musical Theater Association

CAMBRIDGE, MA

FALL 2016-FALL 2017

Executive Board Member, Founding Member, and Cabaret Director

  • Developed programming for semesterly cabaret evenings providing formalized, noncompetitive performance opportunities for Harvard undergraduates in musical theater

  • Directed, emcee’d, and sang in two cabaret productions in Harvard’s Leverett Library Theater (Valentine’s Day Cabaret, Miscast Cabaret)

  • Set budget, raised funds, organized ticketing/publicity, recruited performers, light designed

Dramaturg

Harvard Theater, Dance, and Media Department

CAMBRIDGE, MA

SPRING 2018

Assistant Dramaturg on department production of Three Americanisms, dir. Paul Lazar

  • Intensive creative, historical, and scientific research and analysis

  • Development of program and lobby display

Dramaturg of next to normal, advised by Marcus Stern

  • Conducted intensive historical and psychological research on bipolar disorder, representations of mental illness by actors, theater as a stigma-fighting vehicle and mechanism for promoting discourse about disability

  • Piloted an optional trigger warning model