Sarah Cho is a Los Angeles-based playwright, comedy writer, and educator.

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