Sara Barker

Sara Barker has performed in numerous DC-area productions and is a Producing Partner at Arlington’s Avant Bard Theatre and a company member at DC’s Rorschach Theatre. Select credits include: Avant Bard: Suddenly Last Summer (Catherine), Emilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight (Emilie), King Lear (Edgar), Othello (Desdemona), Orlando (Orlando), and Mary Stuart (Elizabeth); Rorschach: A Maze (Oksana), This Storm is What We Call Progress (Lily), and The Gallerist (Vanessa); Factory 449: 4.48 Psychosis and Closetland; Faction of Fools: The Cherry Orchard (Madame Ranevsky); Scena Theatre: A Woman of No Importance (Mrs. Arbuthnot), The Importance of Being Earnest (Algernon). NYC credits include The Brick’s King Lear (King Lear), Hipgnosis Theatre’s The Winter’s Tale (Paulina), and various devised works with director Lear DeBessonet. In May 2024, Sara will play Liv in Avant Bard’s production of the new play, Homeless Garden – a modern deconstruction of The Cherry Orchard, written by Matt Minnicino and co-developed by Refracted Theatre Company’s Graham Miller. www.sarabarker.com