Sara Cooper is a New York-based Playwright-Lyricist.
Recent Highlights:
Perpetual Sunshine & the Ghost Girls - Bookwriter-Lyricist
Arts Research: Incubation & Acceleration Grant, University of Michigan (2024)
Festival of New Musicals, Village Theatre (2023)
Fred Ebb Award Finalist (2023)
Richard Rodgers Award Winner, The American Academy of Arts and Letters (2022)
National Alliance for Musical Theatre Festival of New Musicals (2022)
Rhinebeck Writers Retreat (2021)
New York Theatre Barn New Works Series (2021)
5X15, Beck Center and Baldwin Wallace University (2021)
Silver Linings Playbook
- Lyricist
commercial musical adaptation of the major motion picture
industry workshop, TBA (2024)
closed workshop (2023)
currently in development
News & Links
Perpetual Sunshine & the Ghost Girls wins the Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theatre
https://playbill.com/article/winners-of-2022-richard-rodgers-awards-named
The Memory Show to be produced by LAMB Arts Regional Theatre
https://www.lambtheatre.com/copy-of-glass-menagerie
HoT selected for 16th Annual Goodspeed Festival of New Musicals
Sara Cooper and Lynne Shankel are the 2021 recipient of the The ASCAP Foundation Lucille and Jack Yellen Award
https://www.ascap.com/press/2021/12/12-13-ascap-foundation-honors
Perpetual Sunshine & the Ghost Girls selected to be in residence this summer with Rhinebeck Writers Retreat
https://www.broadwayworld.com/industry/article/Rhinebeck-Writers-Retreat-Hosts-Residencies-For-23-Writers-Of-Nine-New-Musicals-20210526?fbclid=IwAR177ZRjz7oFH5veAV6H11_tHR2E4hWrdUVWzVGL3tJg5bZT4J9-hVp4z_o
Perpetual Sunshine & the Ghost Girls featured in New York Theatre Barn's New Work Series
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Hunter-Bell-Jeff-Bowen-Lynne-Shankel-and-More-Set-for-New-York-Theatre-Barns-June-2021-Virtual-Programming-20210602?fbclid=IwAR2re9GBpsicVURAL6Xd95vuVSPMVPMXkP474wxGplt9GHpQvi-Y_CVdYeo​