Sarah Saltzberg is an American actress and singer.

Personal

Saltzberg is a native of

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, and a graduate of

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's theatre performance program. Her brother, Adam Saltzberg, is a reality television producer. She also works as a real estate broker in New York.

Career

She made her

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debut in 2005 starring as Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierre in

William Finn William Alan Finn (born February 28, 1952) is an American composer and lyricist. He is best known for his musicals, which include '' Falsettos'', for which he won the 1992 Tony Awards for Best Original Score and Best Book of a Musical, ''A New B ...

and Rachel Sheinkin's ''

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee ''The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee'' is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by William Finn, based on a book by Rachel Sheinkin, conceived by Rebecca Feldman with additional material by Jay Reiss. The show centers on a fictional spe ...

'', a role which she originated with improvisational comedy troupe The Farm. She had previously worked as a weekend nanny for playwright

Wendy Wasserstein Wendy Wasserstein (October 18, 1950 – January 30, 2006) was an American playwright. She was an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1989 ...

,Jasnoff, Brittany
"CFA Alum on Broadway"
bu.edu, November 28, 2006 whose influence helped bring William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin to the creative team of ''Spelling Bee''. She starred in and produced the improvisation and sketch comedy show ''Don't Quit Your Night Job'' at the Ha! Comedy Club in New York City in 2007. Also she appeared in the movie ''City Island'' as the Casting Director. Saltzberg is a writer of the Off-Broadway comedy ''Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating, and Marriage'', which ran at the Downstairs Cabaret Theatre at Sofia’s from October 24, 2010 to June 30, 2012. She has appeared off-Broadway as Helen in '' The Donkey Show'', Cherry in ''Sinfully Rich'', as Helena in ''

A Midsummer Night's Dream ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' is a comedy written by William Shakespeare 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot involves a conflict a ...

'', in 2005 in her one-woman show ''Dear Diary:The Making of Logainne Schwartzandgrubenairre'' (Broadway Spotlight Series, Ars Nova), Heldman, Brianne
"Monday in New York"
''New York Daily News'', November 7, 2005 as well as throughout NYC in long-form improv comedy with the

Upright Citizen's Brigade The Upright Citizens Brigade is an improvisational and sketch comedy group that emerged from Chicago's ImprovOlympic in 1990. The original incarnation of the group consisted of Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh, Adam McKay, R ...

. For the past ten years, Saltzberg has been teaching improvisation to students in grades K–5 at P.S. 6 on the

Upper East Side The Upper East Side, sometimes abbreviated UES, is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 96th Street to the north, the East River to the east, 59th Street to the south, and Central Park/Fifth Avenue to the we ...

References

External links

Sarah Saltzberg fan community

Interview on American Theatre Wing
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