About Sara...

Sara Wordsworth is a New York City-based musical theatre performer, lyricist, writer, and freelance recording artist.

As a performer, her voice can be heard on the Original Cast Album of Disney/ Pixar’s Finding Nemo, the Musical (Darla/Pearl), as well as on the vocal track of the live stage version at Walt Disney World. Favorite regional credits include Jekyll & Hyde (Lucy) and A Chorus Line (Sheila), and she has toured nationally with A Christmas Carol and The Tell-Tale Heart (Theatreworks/USA). Sara also loves to lend her performing skills to musicals in development, and favorite works-in-progress include Martha!, Miss Jones and I, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and Like You Like It. She has been a featured soloist at many notable NYC venues including Lincoln Center’s Merkin Hall, Symphony Space, The Duplex, Downtime, The Century Center, Rockefeller Center, and on nationally syndicated XM Radio. She sang back-up for Paul Anka’s My Way tour, and also contributed vocals to the children’s album, True Life Animal Stories with Charles Osgood. With Home Groan Sketch Comedy, Sara performed her original material at the famed “Caroline’s Comedy Club on Broadway”. She also co-founded and performed with the contemporary a cappella group, Bob Ross Juice Box, and is a former member of Redline a cappella. Last summer, Sara performed the leading role of Princess Winnifred in Chautauqua Opera's Once Upon a Mattress.

Writing credits include lyrics and book for the critically acclaimed a cappella musical, In Transit (previous title: Along the Way), which was showcased at Off-Broadway's York Theatre, Lincoln Center’s Bound For Broadway Concert, The New York Musical Theatre Festival, The New York City International Fringe Festival, and selected for the prestigious Eugene O'Neill National Music Theatre Conference 2008. She contributed lyrics for vocal selections in the family musical Changuita Perla (University of Texas, Austin), and her screenplay, Winter Rose, was an award recipient in Los Angeles-based Upstream Production’s 2000 Original Screenplay competition. Her mini-musical, The Mitzvah on Madison (with composer Carl Danielsen), has been showcased in Woodstock, NY at the Byrdcliffe Arts colony and in New York at Musical Mondays Theatre Lab. Sara is currently developing and contributing lyrics to a full-length science fiction musical, Chinadoll Overdrive, with composer Linda Dowdell (based on a play by Michael P. Hidalgo). Her work has also been featured in several BMI Industry "Smokers", on nationally syndicated XM Radio, and in the York Theatre's NEO4 concert.

She has served as a consultant for the New Jersey State Board of Education’s Arts Curriculum Development Committee, and was a writer’s assistant for Good Morning America as well as a freelance field reporter for The Gayle King Show.

Sara is an honors graduate of Fordham University, the College at Lincoln Center. She is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association, The Dramatists Guild of America, Inc., and a lyricist in the 2006 Tony-Honored BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. She hails from Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey (a suburb of Atlantic City). Sara currently lives in New York City with her husband, opera singer James Wordsworth.

To see Sara's profile on Actors Access:
http://resumes.actorsaccess.com/sarawordsworth