Sara Cooper is a New York-based playwright-lyricist and librettist.

Biography

Cooper graduated from the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at the

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, where she is also currently part-time faculty. She is a member of

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and the

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. She is a recipient of the Richard Rodgers Award, a Jonathan Larson Grant from the

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, a New York State Council on the Arts Individual Theatre Artist Commission, and a Barrington Stage Company Spark Grant. She was an inaugural member of the 92Y Musical Theatre Lab Collective and was the first librettist to complete the Composers & The Voice Fellowship at

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. Cooper's major works as a playwright-lyricist include The Memory Show (book and lyrics by Sara Cooper, music b
Zach Redler
, which was produced Off-Broadway by

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at The Duke on 42nd Street with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and subsequently ran in London (New Bard Productions) and Seoul (Water Gate Media) and was produced regionally at Barrington Stage Company and LAMB Theatre; Elevator Heart (music by Amy Burgess and Julia Meinwald), which was produced b
THML Theatre Company
in association with Access Theater, as well as at the University of San Francisco and workshopped at New York University; and the play Things I Left On Long Island, which premiered in the

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. Cooper's work as a librettist includes Breakfast and Windows (music by Zach Redler), produced by Lowbrow Opera Collective and Fault Lines (music by Gita Razaz), which was commissioned by

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as part of the American Opera Initiative and which premiered at the

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. In addition to her work as a writer, Cooper is also currently part-time faculty at New York University and Purchase College. She has also taught at

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, Guttman Community College, City College, and

Lincoln Center Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5 ...

References

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