SARAH MARKSTEINER

A short musical. Cryovaries follows a woman who rather than freezing her eggs, decides instead to cryogenically freeze her whole self and try life again in 30 years when the world might be better.​

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Developed in the Across a Crowded Room workshop. Book by Sarah Marksteiner, lyrics by Brianna Harris, music by Andi Lee Carter.

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9Jueos2Y-Y

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Executive Producer - Snerth Productions

Editors - Briana Harris, Andi Lee Carter

Direction - Sarah Marksteiner

GHOST GIRL is returning for a second season at the Magnet Theater! I'm a performer on this LIVEWIRE house team, and dang happy to be there alongside very funny people.

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Follow our happenings and watch sketches on
IG @ghostgirlsketchcomedy.

While the theater is on shut-down, I have been focused on growing my skills as a writer. I am very grateful to be taking the Book Writing Basics course with the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop, and developing a new musical. ​

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Through all of 2020, I worked in the Artistic Department of New York City Children's Theater, curating virtual theater content for young ones, even working onsite supporting COVID protocols for a production filmed at Theater Row for later streaming. 

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I am also grateful to have appeared in Little & Fierce Theater Company's CreateFest, in Emma Mueller's original (and highly relatable) play, Judy: Or, I think sophomore year is trying to eat me.

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May 2021

I'm developing a new play! Abandon All Hope: Bees Who Enter Here is a satirical romp through the apocalypse.

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Bees received its first production with Breaking and Entering Theatre Collective in December 2019, at their Pre-Emerging Artists Festival.

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The play was chosen by Somehow 9am Productions for a staged reading (of selected scenes) at their inaugural Hoot & Holler event in January 2020, and for the "Quaranreadings" Zoom play reading series May 2020.

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May 2020

I Hate Art premieres at the Lorton Workhouse in July, playing in rep with Modern Art, another original one-act play by Alex Bulova. Tickets available at the door, and on the Workhouse's website.

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Synopsis:

Modern day college student Lizzie accepts a job modeling for her best friend's figure drawing class. In a fantastical imagining of a timeline past, wealthy Bostonian art collector and audacious public personality Isabella Stewart Gardner navigates her artistic pursuits under the scrutiny of Gilded Age society. As Isabella challenges the censorship of her own body, we hear her frustrations echoed a hundred years later when Lizzie faces the damning delineations between nude portraits and nude photographs. 

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July 2019

Lady Tongue, my contemporary companion piece to Shakespeare's Cymbeline, has advanced to the semi-finals in the American Shakespeare Center's "Shakespeare's New Contemporaries" contest!

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I'll be presenting a staged reading of the piece at the College of William and Mary, more details to be announced.

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November 2018