Sarah Congress ’13
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.
Her full-length satire “Big Yikes!” was selected to be produced in January 2025 by the UP Theatre for their Dead of Winter Reading Series.
Congress has done an interview with Jaime Alejandro on the Arts Calling Podcast, where they discussed playwriting, screenwriting and crafting humor.
155. Sarah Congress | Playwriting, screenwriting, and crafting humor – Arts Calling Podcast
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!
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 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.