Sarah Galante

Sarah Galante (she/her) is a queer playwright based in Brooklyn, New York, where she lives with her spouse and their neurotic corgi, Hoagie. Her work centers bodies onstage, particularly fat bodies, and blends absurdism, dark humor, and emotional realism to interrogate systems of power, shame, and survival.

Her full-length plays include Melinda/Melissa/Melody (2026 Workshop at NYU; 2026 Irons in the Fire Reading Series Finalist), Swallow Me Whole (2026 Bay Area Playwrights Festival Honorable Mention; 2025 Workshop Production at The Tank; 2025 Parity Award Finalist; 2025 National Playwrights Conference Semi Finalist; 2024 Jane Chambers Excellence in Feminist Playwriting Prize Finalist), and Body Negative (2026 O’Neill Semi Finalist; 2026 Workshop Production with Broadway Bods and Grand...

Sarah Galante (she/her) is a queer playwright based in Brooklyn, New York, where she lives with her spouse and their neurotic corgi, Hoagie. Her work centers bodies onstage, particularly fat bodies, and blends absurdism, dark humor, and emotional realism to interrogate systems of power, shame, and survival.

Her full-length plays include Melinda/Melissa/Melody (2026 Workshop at NYU; 2026 Irons in the Fire Reading Series Finalist), Swallow Me Whole (2026 Bay Area Playwrights Festival Honorable Mention; 2025 Workshop Production at The Tank; 2025 Parity Award Finalist; 2025 National Playwrights Conference Semi Finalist; 2024 Jane Chambers Excellence in Feminist Playwriting Prize Finalist), and Body Negative (2026 O’Neill Semi Finalist; 2026 Workshop Production with Broadway Bods and Grand Street Settlement; 2025 Rooftop Reading Series with Breaking and Entering Theater Collective; 2025 Bushwick Starr Reading Series Finalist; 2025 Faultline Theater Company’s Irons in the Fire Reading Series Finalist). Additional works include Baby Can’t Speak (Workshop with GhostLit Repertory Theater Company), Within Earshot (Independent Residency at The O’Neill Center; Concert at 54 Below), and Hear Me War (Production with the Philadelphia Women’s Theater Festival; Commission from the Women’s Playwriting Cooperative).

Sarah was a finalist for the inaugural Terrence McNally Recovery Commission, received a 2026 Honorable Mention from the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and was a Core Apprentice at The Playwrights’ Center under the mentorship of Jen Silverman. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Dramatic Writing at New York University, class of 2027. Sarah creates theater that is fantastical, fat, and irreverent, and is deeply invested in who gets to be seen, heard, and taken seriously onstage.

Scripts

Melinda/Melissa/Melody

by Sarah Galante

Synopsis

A Family Disease traces three generations of women bound together, and torn apart, by the quiet, inherited violence of addiction. As the family cycles through denial, caretaking, relapse, and recovery, secrets that were once dismissed as “normal” begin to split open. Through dark humor and stark intimacy, the play unpacks how love can both nurture and endanger us when survival becomes generational ritual.

A Family Disease traces three generations of women bound together, and torn apart, by the quiet, inherited violence of addiction. As the family cycles through denial, caretaking, relapse, and recovery, secrets that were once dismissed as “normal” begin to split open. Through dark humor and stark intimacy, the play unpacks how love can both nurture and endanger us when survival becomes generational ritual.

Swallow Me Whole

by Sarah Galante

Synopsis

Mae is attempting to write a book about fat positivity. Her skinny mother comes to visit her apartment moments before the first deadline. Chaos ensues. Oscillating between a choreographed dream world and reality, Swallow Me Whole explores how we learn to love our bodies when we have been taught to hate them.

Mae is attempting to write a book about fat positivity. Her skinny mother comes to visit her apartment moments before the first deadline. Chaos ensues. Oscillating between a choreographed dream world and reality, Swallow Me Whole explores how we learn to love our bodies when we have been taught to hate them.

Body Negative

by Sarah Galante

Synopsis

A local weight loss support group gathers every Saturday in the high school gym. But when a visit from corporate—and a sentient talking scale named SCALE—throws their routine into disarray, the group finds themselves spiraling into something far more sinister. As weigh-ins become theatrical, infomercials interrupt reality, and a strange new soup begins to change people, Body Negative spirals into a surreal...

A local weight loss support group gathers every Saturday in the high school gym. But when a visit from corporate—and a sentient talking scale named SCALE—throws their routine into disarray, the group finds themselves spiraling into something far more sinister. As weigh-ins become theatrical, infomercials interrupt reality, and a strange new soup begins to change people, Body Negative spirals into a surreal takedown of diet culture. Blending absurdity with stark realism, the play asks what it means to reclaim your body in a world that keeps trying to sell it back to you.

Seven of Swords

by Sarah Galante

Synopsis

Half-sisters Juno and Win, are meeting for the first time as adults after the mysterious disappearance of their father. There’s a fifteen-year age gap between them—and a shared past they’ve never fully confronted. As they navigate the distance between blood and belonging, the play unearths questions about the way pain echoes through generations. Infused with queerness, tarot, and the quiet power of what goes...

Half-sisters Juno and Win, are meeting for the first time as adults after the mysterious disappearance of their father. There’s a fifteen-year age gap between them—and a shared past they’ve never fully confronted. As they navigate the distance between blood and belonging, the play unearths questions about the way pain echoes through generations. Infused with queerness, tarot, and the quiet power of what goes unsaid, Seven of Swords is a quietly surreal exploration of family, estrangement, and what it means to finally be seen by the person who shares your ghosts.

The Drive Thru

by Sarah Galante

Synopsis

Abortions have been outlawed across all 50 states. Emily Dickinson (yes - that Emily Dickinson) has just landed a job at the drive-thru that plops abortion pills into the straws of strawberry milkshakes. A play that explores how to find control in a world hell bent on taking it away.

Abortions have been outlawed across all 50 states. Emily Dickinson (yes - that Emily Dickinson) has just landed a job at the drive-thru that plops abortion pills into the straws of strawberry milkshakes. A play that explores how to find control in a world hell bent on taking it away.

Baby Can't Speak

by Sarah Galante

Synopsis

Saint MonicAA, a newly sober drag queen is attempting to perform her sold out one-woman show for the first time without the assistance of drugs or alcohol. Accompanied onstage by the playwright and a musician, Baby Can't Speak explores what it means to be a performer (and writer and musician and human being) without a facade.

Saint MonicAA, a newly sober drag queen is attempting to perform her sold out one-woman show for the first time without the assistance of drugs or alcohol. Accompanied onstage by the playwright and a musician, Baby Can't Speak explores what it means to be a performer (and writer and musician and human being) without a facade.

Within Earshot

by Sarah Galante

Synopsis

Set in a coffee shop in Manhattan, Within Earshot explores a baristas eavesdropping on the ins and outs of the beginnings, middles, and ends of relationships. Music by: Jackson Teeley

Set in a coffee shop in Manhattan, Within Earshot explores a baristas eavesdropping on the ins and outs of the beginnings, middles, and ends of relationships. Music by: Jackson Teeley