Sara Bruner

Fourteen seasons with Great Lakes Theater | Directing: Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Daedalus Project Variety Show 2015, The Children’s Monologues (U.S. Premiere), Cabaret (staged reading). Great Lakes Theater: The Taming of the Shrew, A Christmas Carol (4 seasons). Idaho Shakespeare Fesitval: directed/adapted educational tours of Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew. Other Theaters: A Ghost Sonata (Drop Dance Collective), Eurydice (Baldwin Wallace University). Acting: Arena Stage; Berkeley Rep: Norma McCorvey in ROE (World Premiere); Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Viola and Sebastian in Twelfth Night, Sue Trinder in Fingersmith (World Premiere), LeFou in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Charles Wallace in A Wrinkle in Time (World Premiere); Great Lakes Theater/Idaho Shakespeare (10 and 19 seasons respectively): Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd, Queen Elizabeth in Richard III, Fr. Kost in Cabaret, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, Toinette in The Imaginary Invalid, Ariel in The Tempest, Drood in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Viola in Twelfth Night, Miss Casewell in The Mousetrap, Abigail in The Crucible. Awards: 2018 Princess Grace Award, Directing.