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As a novelist, Sara writes incisive, feminist stories about women navigating the pressures of contemporary culture, particularly consumerism, wellness culture, and the performance of perfection. She skewers the absurdities of modern life while keeping a compassionate eye on the women trying to survive them. 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Vicky Bussert (2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ff15c8a5479f6d40ccf938/9729ffc1-aea0-4baa-a816-594dad906a10/Perpetual+Sunshine+%26+the+Ghost+Girls+Rhinebeck+21.png Images Perpetual Sunshine & the Ghost Girls, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ff15c8a5479f6d40ccf938/fea331d1-bd88-41a4-9387-010aace3e455/goodspeedpic.jpeg Images HoT, Goodspeed Musicals, Johnny Mercer Writers Grove (2020) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ff15c8a5479f6d40ccf938/2cf6545d-da3c-4579-9a63-2b8d8023e0ba/Boltpic.png Images Polyanna, Barnstorm Media (2020) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ff15c8a5479f6d40ccf938/648066ec-53ac-415d-b569-d0008039e7e1/Copy+of+elevatorheart-2389.jpg Images Elevator Heart, Tisch New Musical Theatre Workshop, New York University (2016) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ff15c8a5479f6d40ccf938/32551d2f-a54a-42dd-a85d-2945f6bb911a/Elevator+Heart.jpg Images Elevator Heart, THML Theatre Company (2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ff15c8a5479f6d40ccf938/e8af8597-4376-45bf-95e5-449139872966/ehpic2.jpeg Images Elevator Heart, Tisch New Musical Theatre Workshop, New York University (2016) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ff15c8a5479f6d40ccf938/1627343383085-JTYOW6LWD6TMN25NQRZ6/EH1.png Images Elevator Heart, University of San Fransisco, Performing Arts and Social Justice Department, photo credit USF (2018) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ff15c8a5479f6d40ccf938/c8b74b63-3b69-4532-bfcb-0cd12938ad9a/memlon.jpeg Images The Memory Show, New Bard Productions, United Kingdom (2016) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ff15c8a5479f6d40ccf938/174fa45d-94d6-452b-b54c-268e3d8e1339/The+Memory+Show+in+London.png Images The Memory Show, New Bard Productions, United Kingdom (2016) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ff15c8a5479f6d40ccf938/b4a61316-e987-4556-9298-6524028453a0/memlond2.jpeg Images The Memory Show, New Bard Productions, United Kingdom (2016) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ff15c8a5479f6d40ccf938/1627331244320-NJJQ0UE2DF015U3ZBV2X/The+Memory+Show+Transport+pic.jpeg Images The Memory Show, Transport Group, photo credit dir. 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Victoria Bussert, MD Matthew Webb (2021) National Alliance for Musical Theatre 15 Minute Musical Challenge Winner (2020) Perpetual Sunshine & the Ghost Girls is an all-woman+ through-composed musical theatre piece about the capitalist exploitation of workers’ bodies and rights in the face of a national public health crisis. Featuring an original 1920s-2020s mashup score, the show is based on the true story of the women who worked in the factories and were knowingly poisoned by the United States Radium Corporation, and who fought back, changing United States labor laws forever. Photograph: Perpetual Sunshine & the Ghost Girls, 5X15 at Beck Center for the Arts / Baldwin Wallace University, 2021 - photo credit MD/editor Matt Webb, director Victoria Bussert, Baldwin Wallace University, and Beck Center for the Arts (2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ff15c8a5479f6d40ccf938/1627340866606-VSIJMU01CRX836N1JCFD/screenshot-2020-03-30-00-38-13_orig.png Musicals, Teleplays, Plays, and Opera - Book & Lyrics by Sara Cooper Music by Lynne Shankel Festival of New Musicals, Goodspeed Musicals (2022) New York Theatre Barn New Works Series (2020) Johnny Mercer Writers Grove, Goodspeed Musicals (2020) NAMT Festival of New Musicals Finalist (2019) National Alliance for Musical Theatre “Other Shows You Should Know” Jukebox (2019) Concert reading, Dixon Place (2019) HoT is an all-women+ through-composed feminist adaptation of Helen of Troy. It examines the commodification of women throughout our lifetimes as Helen is first sexualized, then held to unrealistic beauty and gender-based standards, and finally vilified and discarded--until she decides to stand up and take her power back. New York Theatre Barn New Works Series video still (2020) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ff15c8a5479f6d40ccf938/22da0e8b-7891-41e3-863f-ffbbab3da933/The+Memory+Show1+copy.jpg Musicals, Teleplays, Plays, and Opera - Book & Lyrics by Sara Cooper Music by Zach Redler LAMB Arts Regional Theatre (2022) Benefit Reading for the Alzheimer's Association, The Mercury Theater Chicago (2019) New Bard Productions in London, England (2016) Original Cast Recording by Yellow Sound Label (2015) Off-Broadway, Transport Group at The Duke on 42nd Street, dir. Joe Calarco, MD Vadim Feichtner (2013) Water Gate Media in Seoul, South Korea (2012) Barrington Stage Company (2010) National Alliance of Musical Theatre Festival of New Musicals (2009) A two-person comic tragedy about the troubled relationship of a woman who has just been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and her estranged daughter who moves back home to take care of her. Transport Group production poster (2013) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ff15c8a5479f6d40ccf938/1627345082795-WARC66U2RTFU9JCYBKRZ/2021-07-26_2012.png Musicals, Teleplays, Plays, and Opera - Libretto by Sara Cooper Music by Zach Redler Lowbrow Opera Collective, dir. Katie Kelley, Christine Oshiki, Nic Varela (2021) Developed in Composers & The Voice at American Opera Projects (2011-2012) American Opera Projects production (2013) Staged faculty concert, NYU Contemporary Music Ensemble (2013) Magnanimous featured at Opera Memphis (2013) A set of 6 monodramas about unrequited love. Jorell Williams in Lowbrow Opera Collective’s digital production (2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ff15c8a5479f6d40ccf938/6904d3c8-102c-4826-8752-1a140b696240/Emma+Goldman+mugshot.jpeg Musicals, Teleplays, Plays, and Opera - Teleplay by Sara Cooper BlueCat Screenplay Competition Semi-Finalist (2021) ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script Competition Semifinalist (2021) Emerging Screenwriters Genre Competition Semi-Finalist, Top 25 (2020) Page Turner Screenplays, Quarter-Finalist (2020) Book and Lyrics by Sara Cooper Music by Lynne Shankel In development If I Can’t Dance to It, It’s Not My Revolution is a rock musical about the immigration, pro-labor, anti-war, and reproductive rights activism, and ultimate deportation, of the enormously influential—and equally controversial—anarchist Emma Goldman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ff15c8a5479f6d40ccf938/1627343383085-JTYOW6LWD6TMN25NQRZ6/EH1.png Musicals, Teleplays, Plays, and Opera - Book & Lyrics by Sara Cooper Music by Amy Burgess and Julia Meinwald NYC Premiere, THML Theatre Company, Access Theater, dir. 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