SARAH OLMSTED THOMAS

Sarah Olmsted Thomas* is a fifth generation artist. She creates and performs original movement and theater pieces. In 2010, she was commissioned by Fortnight Journal in NYC to create 6 original movement works for their inaugural edition. In 2012, she completed an apprenticeship with Bread and Puppet Theater in Glover, VT, which presented one of her dances as part of their Possibilitarian Circus. She is a company member with Happenstance Theater, with whom she is devising Vanitas. She has completed an academic fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., studied mask and physical theater with The Pig Iron Theatre Company in Philadelphia, and trained with Le Samovar, Ecole de Clowns, in Paris. She is a frequent performer with the D.C. Clown Cabaret at the Capital Fringe. B.A., Sarah Lawrence College.

*Equity Membership Candidate

IN ACTION: PERFORMANCE SHOTS

THEATER RESUME

DEVISED WORK

UPCOMING: Cabaret Macabre 4 - Happenstance Theater, D.C.
The Possibilitarians - Bread and Puppet Theater at Theater for the New City, NYC
Vermont Vaudeville - Vermont Vaudeville, VT
Puppet Slamwiches - Black Cherry Puppet Theater, Baltimore
Vanitas - Happenstance Theater, D.C.
Soirée - Pig Iron Theatre Company, Philadelphia
Cabaret Macabre 3 - Happenstance Theater, D.C.
Tales of Courage and Poultry - Faction of Fools, D.C.
The Postulate, (Re)Acts Festival - Happenstance/Forum Theatre, D.C.

SHAKESPEARE

UPCOMING: Viola in Twelfth Night - Maryland Shakespeare Festival
UPCOMING: Dromio of Syracuse in Comedy of Errors - Maryland Shakespeare Festival
Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Maryland Shakespeare Festival
Helena in All’s Well That Ends Well - Maryland Shakespeare Festival
Saturninus in Titus Andronicus - Maryland Shakespeare Festival
Audrey in As You Like It - Maryland Shakespeare Festival
Glendower in Henry IV - WSC Avant Bard, VA

D.C. THEATER

Lieserl in Einstein’s Dreams - Spooky Action Theater
Witch U/S in Macbeth - Synetic Theatre
Grandma/Puppeteer in The Snow Queen - Synetic Family Theatre
Fox/Puppeteer in The Little Prince - Ambassador Theatre
New Play Festival - Young Playwrights’ Theater
4:48 Psychosis - Factory 449

TRAINING

Le Samovar, École de Clowns, Paris
The Pig Iron Theatre Company, Philadelphia
Bread and Puppet Theater, Vermont
Synetic Theatre, Washington, DC
Sarah Lawrence College, New York

SPECIAL SKILLS

Fluent in French
Clown
Mime
Commedia dell’Arte
Puppetry
Ballet (16 years)
Stilt-walking
Voice - Low F to High G
Regional Dialects, Accents

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“EVOLUTION”

Original piece set to Theo Wilson’s “Democracy.”  Edited without music.

Filmed in East River Park, New York.

12.18.10

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