Work samples

  • Two Suns Over Thebes (2014)
    Two Suns Over Thebes (2014)
  • The Director of 'Airport Werewolf' 2019
    The Director of 'Airport Werewolf' 2019

    16 minute student film by Matt Fitzwater. An out-of-work B movie director comes to terms with his career after a disastrous appearance on a live-streamed talk show.  

    Trailer available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dN_ssGmyVc

  • Mary Hartman
    Mary Hartman
  • Worm Life
    Worm Life

About Sarah

Sarah Jacklin is an multi-media artist who writes, directs, acts, and devises new performed work in Baltimore City.

Recent projects include devising the new piece, “Small Wins” with the performance group “Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking Collective” (2025), and The Gold Night (Director, BROS, 2023)

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The Gold Night (2023)

Sara Jacklin directed The Gold Night, a new play for the Baltimore Rock Opera Society in 2023. 

  • Band and Salty Pete
    Band and Salty Pete
  • Gold Night
    Gold Night
  • Gold Night Dancers
    Gold Night Dancers

1-800-MICE

Sarah Jacklin directed an adaptation of Matthew Thurber's cult comic 1-800-MICE a punk-rock, slapstick adventure story about finding yourself just in time for the Apocalypse. Brett McCabe said of the play, "this may be as close as some of us will ever come to seeing a Jack Smith performance in the flesh". Starring: Dave Iden, Suzie Doogan, Nina Kearin, Jakey Zabawa, Phillip Rogers, Alex Scally, Carly Bales, and Martin Kasey. 

 

  • 1-800-MICE
    1-800-MICE
    Show Poster and Production Stills, 1-800-MICE, 2016
  • The Marriage of a Man and a Tree
    The Marriage of a Man and a Tree
    Chlorie Kyxlab (Suzie Dougan) and Officer Nabb (Phillip Rodgers) being wed by Mayor Scorpion Opener, to bring peace between man and tree.
  • Groomfiend Struggles
    Groomfiend Struggles
    Nina Kearin as Groomfiend in 1-800-MICE. (photo credit: Dave Iden)
  • The L.A. Shogun (Alex Scalley)
    The L.A. Shogun (Alex Scalley)
  • Groomfiend (In Need of Coffee)
    Groomfiend (In Need of Coffee)
  • 1-800 MICE
    1-800 MICE
    Willie Winkie
  • DC Metro Arts Review

Trial in the Woods

In 2017, Sarah Jacklin commissioned Stephanie Barber to write a new play, with a single request: that it explore the silence of owl flight. What emerged was "Trial in the Woods," a hybrid musical fable and crime procedural that explores the origins of violence and the possibilities of restorative justice. Trail in the Woods debuted at the Mercury Theater in 2018, and has since been published by Plays Inverse and is available in print at: http://www.playsinverse.com/catalog.

 

 

 

  • Murdered Pennstin holding her entrails.
    Murdered Pennstin holding her entrails.
    Isa Leal as Pennstin the Young Wolf and Emily Hall as Prosecutor Lynx photo credit: Dave Iden
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    trial-cover.png
  • Show Poster (Artist Mika Nakano)
    Show Poster (Artist Mika Nakano)
  • Still from video for Trial in the Woods.
    Still from video for Trial in the Woods.
    VIdeos for Trial in the Woods were a collaboration with filmmaker Miles Engel-Hawbecker
  • Trial Production credit: Dave Iden (2018)
    Trial Production credit: Dave Iden (2018)
    June 2018, I produced, costumed, and directed Trial in the Woods, a new play commissioned from the artist Stephanie Barber. Woods is a courtroom drama, in which a tight-knit community of animals put the very notion of punitive justice on trial after the murder of a young wolf disturbs their sense of fairness.
  • SHOW PROGRAM
    Program of Actors and Collaborators for Trial in the Woods

The Lord of Flies

In 2015, Sarah proposed a devised Lord of the Flies adaptation to the resident company of the Annex Theater, asking- can we create a collaborative piece about the will to power? We mostly learned that there would need to be a K-POP dance number...
Sarah Jacklin, Jake Budenz, Madison Coan, Ryan Kidwell,  Sarah Lamar, Ren Pepitone, Maura Dwyer, Dave Iden, and Maddy Scott wrote, choreographed, and acted in this semi-immersive piece about power and contagion. 

  • Lord of Flies, 2016
    Lord of Flies, 2016
  • The Lord of Flies
    The Lord of Flies

8 Short Plays

Sarah Jacklin co-directed "8 Short Plays," a surreal vaudevillian variety show, in collaboration with Theresa Columbus. The production weaved together selections of Columbus's short plays and individual cast performances into a loose narrative exploring family, dreams, inner monologues, art-making, and beans. Cast and Creative Team: Sarah Jacklin, Malaika Clements, Theresa Columbus, Cliff Doby, Sarah Jacklin, Elvis Karegeya, Megan Livingston, Parker Matthews, and Rae Red, Allison Clendaniel, Nicolette LeFaye, Mika Nakano, Chris Allen

  • The whole cast dressed as canned beans.
    The whole cast dressed as canned beans.
  • Final Bow
    Final Bow
  • People Dressed Sophisticated
    People Dressed Sophisticated

Blood for Dracula

Sarah Jacklin directed an adaptation of Paul Morrissey's "Blood for Dracula" (Andy Warhol's Dracula) as part of Free Fall Baltimore, in partnership with Psychic Readings Company. The 2017 production reexamined the film's themes through a contemporary lens, exploring power dynamics and predatory behavior. Ishai Barnoy, Nina Kearin, Mike Smith, Marian Keramati, and Danni Tsuboi 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Blood for Dracula, 2017
    Blood for Dracula, 2017
    Production Still, Blood for Dracula, 2017
  • Dracula and Ruby
    Dracula and Ruby
  • DraculaPost.jpg
    DraculaPost.jpg
    Blood for Dracula show poster by Carl Dunn.
  • Blood for Dracula
    Blood for Dracula
  • Anton and Mario
    Anton and Mario
  • Rehearsal
    Rehearsal
  • Blood, Camp, and Chaos: City Paper Interview with director Sarah Jacklin

Acting and Directing*: New Works (2013-2016)

Macbeth (2013), One Minute Plays (2013), Two Suns Over Thebes (2013),  Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy (2014), Mary Hartman! Mary Hartman!  (2014) ​​​​​​, One Minute Plays (2014)*, The Potatoes of August, Potato (2014), Garbage, Death, and the City of Baltimore (2015), Miss Chthonic Dream Pageant (2015), Behold the Man (2015), Anti-Klaus (2016)*, The Smallest Something, Not Quite Nothing (2016),Cleveland (2016), Not Today, Salome, (2016), Blood for Dracula (2016)* The Lord of Flies (2016)*, The Master and Margarita (2016), 1-800-MICE (2016)*

  • The Potatoes of August
    The Potatoes of August
  • The Master and Margarita
    The Master and Margarita
  • Two Suns Over Thebes (2014)
    Two Suns Over Thebes (2014)

    In this new translation of The Bacchae by Euripides, the Maenads were inventively used as an anarchistic dancing, singing chorus throughout the play.

  • The Lord of Flies
    The Lord of Flies
  • Rehearsal at EMP Collective for The Potatoes of August
    Rehearsal at EMP Collective for The Potatoes of August
  • Master and Margarita
    Master and Margarita
  • The Master and Margarita
    The Master and Margarita
  • Rehearsal- Master and Margarita
    Rehearsal- Master and Margarita

Founding Member, Yellow Sign Theater

The Yellow Sign Theater was founded in 2011 with the mission to exhault "low" forms of theater such as Grand Guignol, dinner theater, and ghost tours, to create participatory and immersive experiences. Work included: Grand Gugnol (2011), This Bird has Flown (2012) Dark Spell (2012), Anti-Klaus (2012), The Deadliest Feat (2012)  Harm City Murder Tour (2012),  and +1 (2013).

  • Mishe in +1
    Mishe in +1
  • +1, A Dystopian Romance (2012) Yellow Sign Theater
    +1, A Dystopian Romance (2012) Yellow Sign Theater
  • Mary in Anti-Klaus
    Mary in Anti-Klaus
  • Joyeuse in Grand Guignol
    Joyeuse in Grand Guignol

Visual Art

I've been so busy with theater I haven't much documented my continuing visual arts practice. Check back here for more samples to come! 
  • Masked
    Masked