Sarah has been nominated for the Blackburn Prize and Primus Prize and is a proud member of both the Playwrights Collective at Florida Studio Theater (FST) the Dorset Theatre Festival’s Women Artists Writing group (DTFWAW). She has received commissions from Center Stage (Baltimore), the Neo-Political Cowgirls, and FST for her play, called Pandora and her Top Secret and Exceptionally Important Scientific Mission, which will have its world premiere in 2022. Pandora is also scheduled to receive a workshop production at the Theater at Monmouth and be a part of the Children’s Reading Series at The Boise Contemporary Theater in the 2022.
Her first play, Honor Killing, received initial development through the John Drew Theater Lab at Guild Hall (East Hampton). It went on to a world premiere that ran for eight weeks at Florida Studio Theatre (FST) to full capacity audiences. It received its second production at Athena Project in Denver, CO.
Honor Killing was read at WAM Theater in West Stockbride, CT, as part of the Fresh Takes Series. In 2017, it was one of three plays featured in the New Works Reading Series at the Athena Theater, FST’s Sarasota Festival of New Plays, and the PROJECT W Festival at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City (InProximity Theater). Sarah received the award for Runner up for The Woodward International Playwriting Prize at the University of New Hampshire earlier in 2017, where two readings of Honor Killing were conducted both at the University of New Hampshire and the 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, NH. Other accolades for Honor Killing include: Honorable Mention for the Bridge Initiative Playwriting Contest: Playwright of the Year Award, Finalist for the 2017 Ashland New Play Festival, Semi-Finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival (2017), Semi- Finalist for the Premier Stages 2017 Play Festival, Semi-Finalist for the Id Theaters 2017 Playwriting Conference, Finalist for the Hudson River Artists Playwriting Award (2017), final consideration for the PlayPenn New Play Development Conference (2017), Semi-Finalist for 2016 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, and Semi-Finalist for Stage Left Theatre’s Playwriting Residency (Chicago, 2017).
Her play, MAD, was workshopped at FST as part of the 2018 Playwrights Collective and the Spring of 2019 as part of the NNPN’s Women in Playwriting Festival. Monologues from MAD, performed by actress Ellen Dolan, were featured in Neo-Political Cowgirl’s Andromeda Sisters. It has had developmental readings by the 50/50 Arts Production Company in October 2020, the Rising Sun Performance Company in March 2021, in April 2021 with actors: Ellen Dolan, Lauren Galliart, Heather Michele Lawler, Kate Mueth, and Janet Sarno.
Sarah’s play, Graceland 2.0, was workshopped at the Hewitt School in New York City and is a semi-finalist for the New Work Presentation at Columbia College Chicago. Sarah is currently working with several female spoken word collaborators on further its further development.
On stage, as an actor, Sarah has toured nationally on the productions of Lewis & Clark and Laura Ingalls Wilder. Off-Broadway, Ms. Bierstock has been seen in the musical Chess (Lincoln Center), Jacques Brel Returns (The Triad), Committed: The Musical (West End Theater), and Gift of the Magi (The Schoolhouse Theater). Other stage highlights include Mary Hatch in It’s a Wonderful Life (The Chain Theater), Wendy in the world premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s Peter Pan (the Lobero Theater, Santa Barbara, CA) and Virtue in Anything Goes (the Tri-Arts Theater, now called the Sharon Playhouse, CT).
Sarah resides in New York City with her husband and two red headed little girls and is currently writing and rewriting new plays, and developing a multi-media production company.