Sarah Congress ’13
More good news from Sarah about upcoming work!
Sarah Congress ’13 is a comedic playwright and screenwriter. She currently teaches Playwriting and Screenwriting for the Dean’s Office at Columbia University, School of the Arts.
Fall 2024 Update
Piling on with more news—Sarah Congress’ play Melting has been selected to be produced in the International Human Rights Art Festival (IHRF).
Melting is a comedic play that tackles the serious topic of climate change/global warming and will be shown for an audience viewing on December 12, 2024 at 8:30 pm, at the Tank Theatre in NYC, as well as the earlier date of October 11 at Siena College.
In more recent news, Congress has done an interview with Jaime Alejandro on the Arts Calling Podcast, where they discussed playwriting, screenwriting and crafting humor. See link below!
155. Sarah Congress | Playwriting, screenwriting, and crafting humor – Arts Calling Podcast
Along with her recent successes, Congress was the co-writer of the three-minute comedy “I Can’t Hear You,” which was awarded Best Comedy in the Jersey Shore Film Festival in Asbury Park, NJ. Not best “short” comedy—BEST COMEDY!
We often say it takes ten years of sticking with it to start getting traction as a writer. Sarah is right on track. Congrats!
Sarah’s ten-minute play Atlantics Pharmaceuticals was produced in the International Human Rights Festival at The Tank theatre (December 10, 2023).
Her play Overdose won 2nd place for BEST SHORT in the 2023 Downtown Urban Arts Festival festival at Playwright’s Horizon (June 2023).
Congress also co-wrote the screenplay “I Can’t Hear You,” second-place winner in “AP in 3 Film Challenge” in Asbury Park (screened October 22, 2023).
She just had four performances of her comedy Fresh Kills at the LUV festival at the Player’s Theatre (Feb 22–25, 2024).
By day, she works as the Interim Program Administrator for Theatre at Columbia University, School of the Arts.