Sari is a neurodivergent recovering New Yorker turned Appalachian writer living with her husband and small daughter on a small farm in an off-grid cabin in the Tennessee woods writing from her shed overlooking the amazing above garden where she without fail grows too much squash. They love zooming around the woods in ATVs, building giant birdhouses, and other random things. Sari's love of chess, acting, writing, and teaching began when she was young and remain her work today. She's passionate about helping others find their voice and realize their visions. She has an MFA in playwriting from Hunter College where she was mentored by Tina Howe, Samuel Hunter, and Arthur Kopit. Her undergraduate was at Gallatin School for Individualized Studies/NYU where she majored in Utopias/Dystopias in History & Literature (born from a desire to see how people could take community-building into their own hands, what happened when they did, and how we can today).
A chess prodigy, she started teaching in her own classroom in New York City when she was just 13. She quickly fell in love with teaching and continues to teach chess to all ages to this day, only now online. For the last ten years before the pandemic she focused on teaching in person at special needs schools.
Her first acting role was for a Dimetapp commercial at age 3, her first off-Broadway play was when she was 5, she sang in a Christmas record with soap stars and walked the runway at a Macy's fashion show when she was 7, and made her first lead role in film opposite Rene Russo and James Belushi when she was 8. Since then her acting career has never quite recovered. But she's had the privilege of working with Kate Burton, Allison Janney, and the late and great Kathryn Kates as well as being directed by James Orr and Jonas Cuaron (Gravity). She's traveled the world attending film festivals her movies have appeared in.
As a young adult, she combined her passions of writing and acting and formed her own theater company, critically-acclaimed downtown theater company Slightly Altered States. She especially loved live music during shows and creating community with other artists of all genres and audience members through events like their Salon Night at Jimmy's No. 23. Sari's consulted with and produced over 2 dozen New York City productions, helping them grow from inception to stage. She's consulted with and directed other writer/performers in 1-person shows as well as film scripts and works of fiction and memoir.
She has a grant-writing consulting business with a weekly writing group here: Grant Consultings
A chess prodigy, she started teaching in her own classroom in New York City when she was just 13. She quickly fell in love with teaching and continues to teach chess to all ages to this day, only now online. For the last ten years before the pandemic she focused on teaching in person at special needs schools.
Her first acting role was for a Dimetapp commercial at age 3, her first off-Broadway play was when she was 5, she sang in a Christmas record with soap stars and walked the runway at a Macy's fashion show when she was 7, and made her first lead role in film opposite Rene Russo and James Belushi when she was 8. Since then her acting career has never quite recovered. But she's had the privilege of working with Kate Burton, Allison Janney, and the late and great Kathryn Kates as well as being directed by James Orr and Jonas Cuaron (Gravity). She's traveled the world attending film festivals her movies have appeared in.
As a young adult, she combined her passions of writing and acting and formed her own theater company, critically-acclaimed downtown theater company Slightly Altered States. She especially loved live music during shows and creating community with other artists of all genres and audience members through events like their Salon Night at Jimmy's No. 23. Sari's consulted with and produced over 2 dozen New York City productions, helping them grow from inception to stage. She's consulted with and directed other writer/performers in 1-person shows as well as film scripts and works of fiction and memoir.
She has a grant-writing consulting business with a weekly writing group here: Grant Consultings