Sarah Lunnie is an interdisciplinary new-works dramaturg.
She is the Senior Dramaturg of the Public Theater.
Theater collaborations include the development and first productions of Shayok Misha Chowdhury’s Public Obscenities; Heidi Schreck’s What The Constitution Means to Me; Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House, Part 2, The Christians, nightnight and Death Tax; Jeff Augustin’s Where The Mountain Meets the Sea, featuring original music by The Bengsons; Anne Washburn’s Shipwreck; Charles Mee’s Under Construction, made with SITI Company; and, with The Mad Ones, Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie and Miles for Mary; among many others.
Sarah has produced a number of projects for Audible, including Christopher Chen’s The Podcaster. With Telephonic Literary Union (TLU) and Woolly Mammoth, she commissioned Brittany K. Allen, Christopher Chen, Hansol Jung, and Zeniba Now to create the dial-in hotline Human Resources. She and sound designer Stowe Nelson occasionally conspire under the banner of TLU to create phone-based storytelling experiences for very small audiences that are not efficient or particularly scalable.
She frequently supports emerging choreographers as a dramaturg at the New York Choreographic Institute at New York City Ballet.
Sarah was previously an Associate Artistic Director of the Jungle Theater, the Literary Director at Playwrights Horizons, and the Literary Manager at Actors Theatre of Louisville, where she curated and developed new work for the Humana Festival of New American Plays. She is the co-editor, with Amy Wegener, of several volumes of Humana Festival play anthologies.
She has worked as a dramaturg at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Arena Stage, Ars Nova, the Bushwick Starr, Clubbed Thumb, Denver Center Theatre Company, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Lark, Ma-Yi Theater Company, Montana Repertory Theatre, New Dramatists, New York Theatre Workshop, the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, the Baltic Playwrights Conference (Estonia), Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, Second Stage, Soho Rep, SPACE on Ryder Farm, the WildWind Performance Lab at Texas Tech, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and on Broadway.
She has taught in the Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and is a graduate of Boston College, where she studied theater and creative writing.
She lives outnumbered by boys in Brooklyn.
You can learn more about her current projects here.
Photo by Da Ping Luo, courtesy of National Asian American Theatre Company and Soho Rep.
Photo by Marielle Solan, courtesy of New York Theatre Workshop.