resumé
Prior to completing her MFA at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale in 2026, Sarah acted on stage, film, and television in Chicagoland and across the US.
In Chicago, she appeared at The Second City in their holiday sketch and improv show Deck the Hallmark, at the Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook in Murder on the Orient Express, and at the Victory Gardens Theatre, among others. She was in Nia DaCosta's Candyman, as well on television in Netflix's The Chair, HBO's Station Eleven, and NBC's Chicago Med.
While at Yale, she played Hermia in Elm Shakespeare's Bollywood-inspired A Midsummer Night's Dream. She also trained with the School at Steppenwolf summer conservatory.
Sarah excels in transformation, embodied character movement, ability and adaptability in dance technique, dialect work, and collaboration. She loves to discover characters with her collaborators and gets really nerdy about it.
Sarah speaks Cantonese fluently and Mandarin conversationally. She has combat and Chinese Opera martial arts experience, and is a mezzo-soprano belter.
selected credits
theater
King Richard II, The Life and Death of King Richard the Second, directed by Andrew Rodriguez (David Geffen School of Drama at Yale)
Daughter/Hunger/Hades, Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses, dir. Alexis Woodard (David Geffen School of Drama at Yale)
Mary Debenham, Murder on the Orient Express, dir. Jessica Fisch (Drury Lane Oakbrook)
Devorah, In Every Generation, dir. Devon de Mayo (Victory Gardens Theatre)
Jenna/Courtney, Deck the Hallmark, dir. Carisa Barecca (Second City UP Comedy Club)
Kurogo Dancer, M. Butterfly, dir. Charles Newell (Court Theatre)
film/tv
David Geffen School of Drama at Yale | Master of Fine Arts in Acting, 2026
Acting, heightened text/Shakespeare, Speech-Dialect, Voice, Alexander Technique, Dance and Movement, Clown, Combat, Intimacy, Voiceover
The School at Steppenwolf Summer Conservatory
The University of Chicago | Bachelor of Arts
East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Theater and Performance Studies
education
As King Richard II in The Life and Death of King Richard the Second
Samantha (Principal), Candyman, dir. Nia Dacosta (Universal/Monkeypaw Productions)
Charlotte Lo (Principal), The Chair, dir. Daniel Longino, (Netflix)
Young Woman (Co-Star), Station Eleven, dir. Hiro Murai (HBO/Paramount)
Addison (Guest Star), Chicago Med, dir. Alex Chapple (NBC)