Sarah Kimberly Becker is a theatre director, actor, playwright, and educator based in the greater NYC area. Her plays volley between naturalism and the extraordinary while centering on women’s narratives in the historical past and present. Through directing and playwriting, Becker constructs viscerally defined worlds while emphatically nodding to magical realism and the Weird. Influenced by her musical hometown of Austin, Texas, Becker’s words and direction move like music. In her plays Victoria Street and From the Other Room, Becker explores rhythm and tempo while focusing her vision on character driven narratives. Both plays are currently in development at Sarah Lawrence College. 

As an actor, Becker’s work  spanned the greater Southwest at celebrated regional theatres such as The Catastrophic Theatre (Houston), Street Corner Arts and Austin Playhouse, and most notably, ZACH Theatre (also in Austin). In 2019, Becker starred in the premiere of a new adaptation of Dracula, written and directed by Stephen Dietz. Her performance was critically lauded as “one with grace . . .  nuance,” by the Austin Chronicle.  She also performed as Emma  in Curse of the Starving Class at The Catastrophic Theatre alongside Houston theatre giants. Most recently, Becker made her NYC debut at The Tank in K. Stanger’s new play 100 Feet in the Air.  

Becker has explored the impact of community as an educator by challenging her students to engage with theatre that masquerades as inaccessible. By exposing her students to great theatrical works and incorporating diverse populations into these opportunities, Becker gives her students access to a foreign and historically exclusionary art form. She firmly believes all theatre can, and should, be accessible.

Becker’s approach to ensemble and collaboration is inclusive, kooky, and ecstatically fun. She inspires young people to take ownership of their art through generous and kind artistic exchange. Her artistic practice channels theatre as a means to uplift, question, and revel in the human condition. Her work explores new means of telling stories while paying homage to the theatre makers of yesterday. She mines classic texts for resonant, human truths that are then reinvented and reinvigorated within a contemporary, and spatially conscious context.

Becker is currently an MFA candidate in Theatre and Performance at Sarah Lawrence College.