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.