WILD PLAYS

Sarah Mantell
Tuesday, Apr 1 2025, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, East Academic Center, Classroom 2
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Tuesday, Apr 1 2025 12:30 PM Tuesday, Apr 1 2025 1:30 PM America/New_York WILD PLAYS CAMPUS COMMUNITY ONLY | Sarah Mantell is a playwright who likes to create wild new plays. Come hear a bit about the work Sarah makes and some of the ways Sarah helps other writers to write the plays that only they can write. East Academic Center, Classroom 2 Bennington College Add to Calendar

CAMPUS COMMUNITY ONLY | Sarah Mantell (they/them) is the recipient of the 2023 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot (Playwrights Horizons). Their other plays include Everything That Never Happened (Baltimore Center Stage, Boston Court Pasadena, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Folger), The Good Guys (Second Stage), Tiny (Seven Devils), and Fight Call (Artists Rep, Breaking the Binary). Sarah has been awarded residencies with MacDowell, Yaddo, Wildacres, Hedgebrook, Fresh Ground Pepper, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and SPACE on Ryder Farm, as well as a Toulmin grant, an Edgerton Foundation grant, and a Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship. Essays include Touch the Wound, But Don’t Live There in American Theatre Magazine. Sarah has taught at Wesleyan University, SUNY Purchase, Occidental College, University of Vermont, and New Haven's Cooperative Arts High School. BFA Rhode Island School of Design. MFA Yale School of Drama.