Sarah Galante

Sarah Galante (she/her) is a queer playwright and fat activist based in Brooklyn, where she lives with her spouse and their neurotic corgi, Hoagie. Her work centers bodies onstage, particularly fat bodies, and blends absurdism, dark humor, and emotional realism to interrogate systems of power, shame, and survival. 

Her full length plays include Melinda/Melissa/Melody (2026 Workshop at NYU; 2026 Irons in the Fire Reading Series Finalist), Swallow Me Whole (2026 Bay Area Playwrights Festival Honorable Mention; 2025 Workshop Production at The Tank; 2025 Parity Award Finalist; 2025 O’Neill Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist; 2024 Jane Chambers Excellence in Feminist Playwriting Finalist) and Body Negative (2026 Workshop Production with Broadway Bods & Breaking & Entering Theater Collective; 2026 O’Neill Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist; 2025 Rooftop Reading Series with Breaking & Entering Collective; 2025 Bushwick Starr Reading Series Finalist, 2025 Irons in the Fire Reading Series Finalist). Additional works include Baby Can’t Speak (Workshop with Ghoslit Rep Theater Company), Within Earshot (Independent Residency at the O’Neill Center; Concert at 54 Below), and Hear Me War (Production with the Philadelphia Women’s Theater Festival; Commission from the Women’s Playwriting Cooperative).

Beyond the stage, Sarah has worked extensively as a writer for large scale musical and theatrical events. She served as the scriptwriter for the National Philharmonic’s 2020 to 2021 virtual season and the 2021 PBS Holiday Concert Series, crafting scripts for performances featuring artists and public figures such as Norm Lewis, Garth Brooks, and Michelle Obama. These projects were filmed across the country, from Mount Vernon to Lincoln Center. 

Sarah was a finalist for the inagural Terrence McNally Recovery Commission, received a 2026 honorable Mention from the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and was a Core Apprentice at the Playwrights’ Center under the mentorship of Jen Silverman. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Dramatic Writing at New York University. Sarah creates theater that is fantastical, fat, and irreverent, and is deeply invested in who gets to be seen, heard, and taken seriously onstage.