Artistic Associate
Since 2004
Sara Gmitter (she/her) is a longtime Artistic Associate with Lookingglass Theatre. Sara’s playwriting credits include: A Long Fatal Love Chase (Translation and Adaptation Reading Series at Remy Bumppo); Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy, co-written with Jason Burkett (New Suit Theatre Company at the Raven Theatre); In the Garden: A Darwinian Love Story (Lookingglass Theatre Company & Malvern Theatre Company in Melbourne Australia). In the Garden was nominated for a Jeff Award for Best New Work. In 2022, the Adrienne Shelly Foundation named Sara as the first recipient of their Playwright’s Award.
Sara has also served as a teaching artist, mentor, director, and playwright for the Lookingglass Young Ensemble. In Santa Fe, she has twice collaborated with the organization Creativity for Peace (now called Tomorrow’s Women), first to devise Voices from Israel, Palestine, and New Mexico, and then with additional collaboration from students at the Institute of American Indian Arts, to create Tearing Down Walls: Voices from the Middle-East and Santa Fe.
She has a BA in Theatre from the College of William and Mary and a Masters in Peace Education from the UN Mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica. She joined the Dramatist Guild in 2019.
She earned a B.A. in Theatre from the College of William and Mary and an M.A. in Peace Education from the UN mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica. She currently serves as Program Assistant for Girls Inc. of Santa Fe and is also the co-clerk of the American Friends Service Committee’s Nobel Peace Prize Nominating Task Group. Sara is the recipient of the Adrienne Shelly Foundation Inaugural Playwrights Award.
Bio as of 2023
This first play by Sara Gmitter was a lovely, beautifully played and designed meditation on evolution and faith that also managed to find a deeply thoughtful middle ground in what might well have been a shrill, one-sided argument.
–Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times
Artist Media
Lookingglass Productions
Credits And Awards
Theatre Credits – Stage Management
Chicago
- Goodman Theatre
- About Face Theatre
- Victory Gardens Theater
Theatre Credits – Writing
Chicago
- Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy (New Suit Theatre Company)
Awards
- Jeff Award Nomination for Best New Work for In the Garden: A Darwinian Love Story
Education
B.A. in Theatre, The College of William & Mary
M.A. in Peace Education, UN mandated University for Peace (Costa Rica)