Sara Holdren

Teaches at Primary Stages ESPA

Sara Holdren is a director, teacher, and theater-maker originally from Charlottesville, Virginia, currently residing in Brooklyn. She specializes in Shakespeare, reimagined classics, and sprawling, epic stories new and old. Recent projects include Deer and the Lovers by Emily Zemba, The Zero Scenario and A New Saint for a New World by Ryan Campbell, and The Master and Margarita, adapted by Edward Kemp from the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, as well as serving as the Artistic Director of the 2015 Yale Summer Cabaret, where she directed MIDSUMMER (which she co-adapted from the play by William Shakespeare) and Sarah Ruhl’s Orlando. She holds a BA in Theater from Yale University and an MFA in Directing from Yale School of Drama, where she trained with David Chambers and Dmitri Krymov in Active Analysis and the etude method. She is also a graduate of the Acting Shakespeare program at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Other work includes: Measure for Measure, Tiny Boyfriend by Phillip Howze, The Tempest, and her own adaptations of Shakespeare’s Henry IV plays and Leonid Andreyev’s He Who Gets Slapped.