Sara Cooper

Sara Cooper is a Playwright-Lyricist. Recent highlights: Silver Linings Playbook, Broadway-bound commercial adaptation of the major motion picture, lyricist, workshop (2024), reading (2023); Perpetual Sunshine & the Ghost Girls, New Works Festival, University of Michigan (2024), Arts Grant, UMichigan (2024), Festival of New Musicals, Village Theatre (2023), Richard Rodgers Award (2022); National Alliance for Musical Theatre Festival of New Musicals (2022), Rhinebeck Writers Retreat (2021); SINGULARITY, Individual Development Award, Purchase College (2024), Honorable Mention, Relentless Award (2024); ASCAP Foundation Lucille and Jack Yellen Award (2021); HoT, Festival of New Musicals, Goodspeed (2022), Johnny Mercer Foundation Writers Grove (2020), New York Theatre Barn New Works (2020); The Memory Show, LAMB Theatre (2022), New Bard, London (2016), Transport Group, The Duke on 42nd Street (2013), Water Gate Media, Seoul (2012-2013), Barrington Stage Company (2010), NAMT (2010); Barrington Stage Company Spark Grant (2020); Windows and Breakfast, Lowbrow Opera Collective (2021, 2020); Polyanna, Grand Jury Prize, Barnstorm Media (2020); Elevator Heart, Moxie Arts (2019), USF (2018); Fault Lines, Kennedy Center, American Opera Initiative (2018); Things I Left On Long Island, FringeNYC (2014), Overall Excellence Award: Playwriting (2014), TimeOut NY Critics’ Pick (2014); Jonathan Larson Grant, American Theatre Wing (2014). MFA Graduate Musical Theatre Writing, NYU. Dramatists Guild, ASCAP. http://saracooper.me