Sara Cooper

Sara Cooper is a debut novelist and an award-winning playwright-lyricist. She lives in New York with her husband John and their son Theo. Major awards include Richard Rodgers Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters (2022); ASCAP Foundation Lucille and Jack Yellen Award (2021); Grand Jury Prize, Barnstorm Media (2020); Jonathan Larson Grant, American Theatre Wing (2014). RAVENOUS was a Finalist for the 2025 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards. Recent theatre writing highlights: Perpetual Sunshine & the Ghost Girls, development with Paper Mill Playhouse (2025), University of Michigan (2024), Village Theatre (2023), National Alliance for Musical Theatre (2022), Rhinebeck Writers Retreat (2021); SINGULARITY, Purchase College grant (2024), Honorable Mention, Relentless Award (2024); HoT, development with Goodspeed (2022), Johnny Mercer Foundation (2020), New York Theatre Barn New (2020); The Memory Show, productions at LAMB Theatre (2022), New Bard, London (2016), Transport Group, The Duke on 42nd Street (2013), WaterGateMedia, Seoul (2012-2013), and Barrington Stage Company (2010), development with NAMT (2010); Windows and Breakfast, production, Lowbrow Opera Collective (2021, 2020); Elevator Heart, production, Moxie Arts (2019), development at USF (2018); Fault Lines, Kennedy Center, American Opera Initiative (2018); Things I Left On Long Island, FringeNYC (2014), Overall Excellence Award: Playwriting (2014), TimeOut NY Critics’ Pick (2014). MFA Graduate Musical Theatre Writing, NYU. Sara currently teaches at Purchase College.