Sarah Cosgrove-Gaumond
- Actress
Sarah Cosgrove is an actor, director, and playwright. Her recent playwriting recognition include: the John Cauble One-Act Play Award for I Lived to Tell at KCACTF Region IV Festival in 2022 and the John Cauble One-Act Play Award for North Wind at KCACTF Region IV Festival in 2021. Her play North Wind was chosen to be included in the Hollins Winter Play Festival in January 2022. Sarah trained as a professional actor with Sanford Meisner at The Neighborhood Playhouse and was awarded a Non-Equity Jeff Nomination for her performance in Savage in Limbo by John Patrick Shanley with Inn Town Theater Company in Chicago. As the National Social Media Manager for the Future Is Female Festival, Sarah and her colleagues, created a ten minute female play festival that took place in over fifteen cities in North America. Sarah wrote and performed her play, It Would Have to be a Girl, at the Future is Female Festival at Chicago Dramatists. Recent Staged Readings include: North Wind at the Hollins New Play Festival in 2019, District Dramatists in 2020, and Rapid Lemon Productions at Motor House, Baltimore in 2020; Unspoken: Hollins New Play Festival in 2018; The Woman Question and You'd be So Much Prettier if You with the Women's Performance Workshop, Strand Theater, Baltimore in 2018. Sarah earned a BS in Theatre from Illinois State University, is currently enrolled as an MFA candidate in playwriting at Hollins University, and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America.