Sarah Cannon

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I consider myself an emerging playwright with a fun first play. When I was in my MFA program at Goddard College in 2014, playwright and screenwriter Darrah Cloud was my mentor, as I had declared the genre of playwrighting/screenwriting my focus. This changed, and my thesis turned into a full-length manuscript that would later become the memoir I published with Red Hen Press in 2018, The Shame of Losing. I learned a great deal through that writing and rewriting process, and since then have returned to some of my original script pages that never had full sets of legs. A year or so ago I signed up for a facilitated The Artists Way class, and my play emerged from those creative sessions. My work tends to be autofiction with a play on the absurd. This means that while yes, my gravitation toward themes around single motherhood are indeed personal, I am often amused by my female friendships and work towards integrating humor into the work to diffuse the societal message about "traditional families" that might otherwise might feel overwrought. I like movement and jokes and melancholy and am excited by the collaborative aspect of creating work for the stage.

I do not have an agent and am looking for representation