Sarah Saltzberg is an American actress and singer.
Personal
Saltzberg is a native of
Needham, Massachusetts
Needham ( ) is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. A suburb of Boston, its population was 32,091 in the 2020 United States Census, 2020 U.S. Census. It is the home of Olin College.
History
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, and a graduate of
Boston University
Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodism, Methodists with its original campus in Newbury (town), Vermont, Newbur ...
'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
Saltzberg made her Broadway debut in 2005 starring as Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierre in William Finn
William Alan Finn (February 28, 1952 – April 7, 2025) was an American composer and lyricist. He was best known for his musicals, which include ''Falsettos'', for which he won the 1992 Tony Awards for Tony Award for Best Original Score, Best O ...
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, with a book written by Rachel Sheinkin, created by Rebecca Feldman with additional material by Jay Reiss. The show centers on a fictional ...
'', a role which she originated with improvisational comedy troupe The Farm. She had previously worked as a weekend nanny for playwright Wendy Wasserstein,[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''.
Saltzberg 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.
Saltzberg 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 (drama), comedy play written by William Shakespeare in about 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One s ...
'', in 2005 in her one-woman show ''Dear Diary:The Making of Logainne Schwartzandgrubenairre'' (Broadway Spotlight Series, Ars Nova
''Ars nova'' ()Fallows, David. (2001). "Ars nova". ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan. refers to a musical style which flourished in the Kingdom of ...
),
as well as throughout NYC in long-form improv comedy with the Upright Citizen's Brigade
The Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) is an improvisational comedy, improvisational and sketch comedy group that emerged from Chicago, Illinois, Chicago's ImprovOlympic in 1990. The original incarnation of the group consisted of Amy Poehler, Matt ...
.
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 boroughs of New York City, borough of Manhattan in New York City. It is bounded approximately by 96th Street (Manhattan), 96th Street to the north, the East River to the e ...
. In 2024, she appeared in two episodes of the Broadway Podcast Network's ''Around the Sun'' audio drama, written by Brad Forenza, as part of Season 4: ''Artists Within''
References
External links
Sarah Saltzberg fan community
Interview on American Theatre Wing
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Actresses from Massachusetts
American stage actresses
Boston University College of Fine Arts alumni
Living people
People from Needham, Massachusetts
Singers from Massachusetts
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women