ABOUT
Sarah Cho is a Los Angeles-based playwright and comedy writer.
She currently teaches theater at South Mountain Community College and Ventura Community College. She likes to think of herself as being very community-minded.
In theater, Cho's work has been developed/presented by Moving Arts Theatre, IAMA Theatre Company, The Vagrancy, Jungle Theater, South Mountain Community College, Ashland New Play Festival, Great Plains Theatre Conference, and Iowa New Play Festival. Most recently, her play STAINS was selected as a finalist for the 2023 Jane Chambers Award. She is a recipient of the Iowa Arts Fellowship, the Richard Maibaum Playwriting Award, Kennedy Center’s Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award, and was named Associate Artist for the Ashland New Plays Festival. She also co-hosts the “very interesting” playwriting podcast Beckett’s Babies with fellow playwright Sam Collier which you can learn more about at www.beckettsbabies.com.
In comedy, Cho has performed at Green Gravel Comedy Festival, Laugh Riot Grrrl Festival, and written sketch comedy for LA Scripted Comedy Festival and house teams at the Pack Theater. Her work has been featured on ComedyCake, WhoHaHa, and Funny or Die. She currently writes and co-produces the late-night-style podcast The Dump. You can sometimes catch her doing stand-up at open mics in the most random places, but she will never be caught dead shopping in an Erewhon.
Sarah grew up in Los Angeles and lived by the beaches of Santa Barbara. She earned her BA in Film and Theater at UC Santa Barbara, where she excelled in eating tons of burritos, and holds her MFA from Iowa Playwrights Workshop, where she excelled in drinking pie shakes. She currently resides in Ventura with her very professional writer husband, Nik Frank-Lehrer, and her very unprofessional cat, Butters Cho. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild.
BA: UC Santa Barbara MFA: Iowa Playwrights Workshop
PLAYS
The Kimchi Cycle Plays
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STAINS
A young girl’s first period can bring complicated emotions. But for Christine, a Korean American teenager on the wrong side of Los Angeles, it could also mean burdening her impoverished family. Luckily, she finds support where she least expects it: from a ‘90s pop-culture icon who serves as her “period guide.” A coming-of-age comedy about growing up poor, female, and Korean American in late-90s L.A., STAINS moves from grounded reality to flights of adolescent fancy while exploring a painfully awkward rite of passage.
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Slanted Feelings
Two rival Korean families compete to make the best kimchi in town. They also happen to attend the same Korean church. Who will win and bring the most glory to God with their cooking skills? Let’s pray. "slanted feelings" is a playwright’s ode to Korean families and competitive cooking shows.
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COMING SOON
More info to come....