Lookingglass Theatre Company Awards Sara Gmitter With The Adrienne Shelly Foundation Playwrights Award

Lookingglass Theatre Company has announced that Artistic Associate Sara Gmitter has been awarded the The Adrienne Shelly Foundation Playwrights Award.

Sara Gmitter began her career at Lookingglass as an Assistant Stage Manager for The Idiot. She subsequently stage managed 42 productions and workshops for the company including multiple iterations of Lookingglass Alice. She counts 20 world premieres among the shows she helped to shepherd from first rehearsal to closing night. She has also served the company as a teaching artist, writer, and director for the Lookingglass Young Ensemble (Waging Peace, Mending the Peace). In 2014 she made her main stage debut as a playwright with In the Garden: A Darwinian Love Story (Jeff Award Nomination for Best New Work). Previous playwriting credits include: Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy (New Suit Theatre Company), co-written with Jason Burkett, adapted from the film by Dr. Randy Olson; and A Long Fatal Love Chase (Powerhouse Theatre Company) adapted from the novel by Louisa May Alcott. Her short story, Harold has been heard on WBEZ's Stories On.

Sara 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 spent 6 years as the co-clerk of the American Friends Service Committee's Nobel Peace Prize Nominating Task Group and currently advocates for the rights of girls and young women in her role as Programs Coordinator for Girls Inc. of Santa Fe.

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.

Learn more at https://lookingglasstheatre.org/people/sara-gmitter/.