Sara Holdren is a director, teacher, and writer, originally from the Blue Ridge foothills of Virginia. She is the theater critic for New York Magazine and Vulture.com, the recipient of the 2016-2017 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, and the co-founder of the theater project Tiltyard. Recent projects include Robert Icke’s Oresteia (NYU Grad Acting), As You Like It (Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival), Black Snow (Atlantic Theater School), Cymbeline (NYU Grad Acting), Tiltyard’s MIDSUMMER (which she co-adapted from the plays of Shakespeare) at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Three Sisters (Two River Theater), and bicycling 3,900 miles across the country with her partner, Beau, a writer. Sara is a Drama League Fellow, a graduate of the Acting Shakespeare program at RADA, and has been both a lead artist and a mentor at the Mercury Store. She holds a BA in Theater from Yale University and an MFA in Directing from Yale School of Drama. She lives in Jersey City with Beau and their feline friends, Masha and Danny.
