Hi, I’m Sarah. I’m a dramaturg, theatre director, filmmaker, and choreographer currently based in Utah.

About me

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Dr. Sarah Grunnah (she/her/ella) is Assistant Professor of Theatre at Weber State University in Ogden, UT. She is a dramaturg, translator, theatre historian, and performance theorist with research interests in early modern Spanish-language drama, translation/adaptation, gender, and the intersection of performance with sport/figure skating. She holds a PhD from the University of Oxford and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Sarah is also a film director, and authors the Substack ‘Skate the Stage,’ which explores figure skating through the lens of performance theory. She is originally from a Wisconsin town at the tip of Lake Superior.

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Click here to read my essays about the intersection of figure skating and performance theory.

Specialties

Theatre history

Performance Studies

Performance Theory

Translation

Adaptation

Figure Skating

Choreography

Spring 2024 News:

Sarah was just named one of six Early Career Fellows as part of the Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva.