Sarah Jae Leiber
Sarah Jae Leiber is a New York-based playwright, screenwriter, dramaturg, and critic writing about and through the lens of pop culture idolatry, Jewishness, and being a weird girl. She is, crucially, from Philadelphia. Her play, PLEASE LAUGH, was a recent semifinalist for the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. It received a reading at Pete's Candy Store in the winter of 2023. Other...
Sarah Jae Leiber is a New York-based playwright, screenwriter, dramaturg, and critic writing about and through the lens of pop culture idolatry, Jewishness, and being a weird girl. She is, crucially, from Philadelphia. Her play, PLEASE LAUGH, was a recent semifinalist for the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. It received a reading at Pete's Candy Store in the winter of 2023. Other playwriting credits include Grand Theft Tea Leaves (Off-Broadway, Theatre Row), the old jew who begat scrooge, on his deathbed (McCarter Theatre Center), The Repair Man (Muhlenberg College Mainstage), speaking strictly for me (Astoria Food Pantry), and Freudian Oops (an ill-fated, COVID-cancelled production at Jewish Theatre of Bloomington). Her 30-minute dramedy pilot, Hearts and Bones, was a semifinalist in ScreenCraft's 2021 TV Pilot competition. B.A. in theatre and history from Muhlenberg College.