Hi, I’m Sarah - a dramaturg, theatre director, filmmaker, and choreographer currently based in northern Utah.

About me

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Dr. Sarah Grunnah (she/her/ella) is Assistant Professor of Theatre at Weber State University in Ogden, UT. She is a dramaturg, translator, theatre historian, and performance theorist with research interests in early modern Spanish-language drama, translation/adaptation, gender, and the intersection of performance with sport/figure skating. She holds a PhD from the University of Oxford and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Sarah is also a film director, and authors the Substack ‘Skate the Stage,’ which explores figure skating through the lens of performance theory. She is originally from a northern Wisconsin town at the tip of Lake Superior.

Photo by Cam McLeod

Click here to read my essays about the intersection of figure skating and performance theory.

Specialties

Theatre history

Performance Studies

Performance Theory

Translation

Adaptation

Figure Skating

Choreography

News

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Spring 2025

Sarah named one of three finalists in American Ice Theatre’s Young Artist Showcase.

Winter 2025

Sarah produced & performed in FLOE: only ice knows, an on-ice contemporary performance piece about the climate crisis.

Spring 2024

Sarah named one of six Early Career Fellows with the Mellon-funded Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva.