Sarah Byrons

Sarah Byrons is a Maryland transplant, originally from the Hudson Valley region of New York. She is a multidisciplinary theatre maker with a background in the creation of new and devised work, as well as extensive training in Shakespearean verse and performance.

Sarah is a founding member of the Hudson Valley Performing Arts Laboratory, an organization based in New York’s Hudson Valley region which provides collaboration and engagement opportunities for local performing arts professionals, hobbyists, and organizations through affordable educational programming and the creation of new ensemble-based work. Sarah has also worked as a teaching artist, bringing an actor's perspective to English classrooms studying Shakespeare's plays, and has served on a variety of committees including as a panelist for the Helen Hayes Awards and as a reader for Expand the Cannon; an annual, curated list of excellent and producible classic plays by women and underrepresented genders, helmed by the Brooklyn-based Hedgepig Theatre Ensemble. She believes in arts as collaboration.

Sarah received her BFA in Drama from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, with a focus on performance and playwriting, and has studied playwriting in both New York and London. She is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.