SARAH COREY
ACTOR
BIOGRAPHY
Sarah Corey is a stage and screen actress known for her extraordinary versatility and range, as well as her equal dexterity in both musical and non-musical theater. She has performed off-Broadway, and at such prestigious regional theaters as Arena Stage, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Theater J, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, and Olney Theatre Center. Last season, she performed as Daphna in Bad Jews at Gamm Theatre, Trina in Falsettosat Rep Stage, Ursula in Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare Theatre Company, and Sister Mary Amnesia in Nunsense at Barnstormers Theatre. This season sees her as Val in The Chamelon with Theater J.
Favorite roles include Anisah in In the Book Of (world premiere), Anne/Ana/Aminah in Oil, Kate in Brighton Beach Memoirs, Grocer’s Wife/Mrs. Beouf in Rhinoceros, Sittah in Nathan the Wise, Borachio in Much Ado About Nothing, Olivia in Twelfth Night, Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Sarah in Beau Jest, Aouda et al. in Around the World in 80 Days, Kefi in One Golden Moment, Sylvia in Death for Five Voices, Annie in Love & Real Estate, Kate in Lippa’s Wild Party (for which she won an IRNE Award for Best Supporting Actress), and Rose in Caroline, or Change.
Sarah is also a season television actor, co-starring in We Own This City as Special Agent Perry, Swagger, and Lady in the Lake. She was also a recurring co-star in A Good Cop, where she appeared as a psychologist. Other credits include appearing as the lead in the short Unravel.
Sarah attended Boston Latin School and Princeton University, where she majored in English and Theater. She trained at LAMDA in London and is a graduate of Shakespeare & Company’s Conservatory for Classical Acting in Lenox MA.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
"... a brilliant performance …” – The Westerly Sun
Bad Jews– “Corey, as the formidable powerhouse of a wrecking ball gives a brilliant performance...Daphna — with her thick, flowing, dark hair — is a sharp-tongued, devout Jew and Vassar senior who plans to move to Israel after graduation to join her Israeli boyfriend. She's also on stage for nearly the entire 90-plus minutes and can spew heartbreaking-cum-humorous vitriol with such skill and speed she'll have your head spinning as you alternately laugh, gasp and cover your mouth in shock.”
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"... Corey plays an incredible Daphna…” – Broadway World
Bad Jews – “Sarah Corey plays an incredible Daphna Feygenbaum...a devote Jew with an invisible Israeli boyfriend, whose humor keeps the play light during even the darkest of intervals.”
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"... a masterpiece of well- choreographed comic tension..." – Metro Weekly
Falsettos – “Never missing a note, in her charismatic solo numbers, nor in the tricky characterization of a woman blindsided by her husband’s coming out, circa 1979, Corey’s Trina gets her story across with clarity and engaging humor. Her smiling-through-disaster “I’m Breaking Down” is a masterpiece of well- choreographed comic tension."
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"... a show highlight..." – Broadway World
Nunsense – “And a cracker jack performance is a show highlight with Sister Mary Amnesia (Sarah Corey), that’s her temporary name because after being hit in the head by a falling crucifix, she can’t remember her real name. She’s an improvising genius in her pop quiz interaction with the audience and is outrageously funny in her number, "So You Want To Be a Nun." And in a number that helps her to recall her name, she’s a country singing star in "I Could've Gone to Nashville.” (Calling her a Loretta Lynn sound alike is an understatement).”