Sarah Mantell

A white woman with short, dark hair wearing wire-rimmed glasses smiles at the camera. They are seated, leaning forward with their hand on their chin, wearing a jean jacket and a dark shirt. There is a grey background behind them.

Walls Trimble

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, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Boston Court Pasadena), The Good Guys (Second Stage, PlayPenn), Tiny (Seven Devils, Seattle Rep), and Fight Call (Artists Repertory Theatre, Breaking the Binary) They have been first-runner up for the Leah Ryan Award, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, nominated for the Pulitzer, and longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize. Sarah is also a two-time MacDowell fellow and Yaddo resident. They run the independent workshop Five Weeks to a First Draft as well as a Free Application Help pilot program for historically underrepresented writers. BFA Rhode Island School of Design. MFA Yale School of Drama.

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