Director|Choreographer
Sara Edwards is a New York City-based director and choreographer who over the past 10 years has excelled as a collaborator on new works and revivals on Broadway and national tours with Broadway’s top creatives: Pirates! The Penzance Musical with Jinkx Monsoon, Barry Manilow’s Harmony, Hugh Jackman in The Music Man, Bette Midler, Bernadette Peters, and David Hyde Pierce in Hello Dolly! (NYC and restaged for tour), After Midnight with Fantasia, Patti LaBelle, and KD Lang (Tony award for best choreography), as well as the Radio City Rockettes Spring Spectacular, New York City Ballet, Tony Awards, PBS Great Performances, Secret Garden at the Ahmanson, The Sting with Harry Connick Jr at Papermill, five NY City Center Encores! productions, and Hugh Jackman’s Arena World Tour. She has enjoyed many regional spaces as director and choreographer throughout the country, creating productions including Ragtime, The Music Man, Anything Goes, White Christmas, Tick Tick Boom!, Grease! and benefit concerts for Bette Midler’s Hulaween and Bernadette Peters' Broadway Barks.
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Sara also creates for RWS Global for Azamara International Cruise Lines and the Medora Musical in North Dakota. This summer, Sara is developing two new musicals. Let The Good Times Roll conceived by Jack Viertel will premiere in August 2025 at The Phoenix Theater Company. Stay tuned for more!
As a performer, Sara has appeared on Broadway in She Loves Me, Follies, Chaplin, and White Christmas and in regional theaters across the country, from LaJolla Playhouse to NSMT in Boston. She got her start in Hershey, PA, is a proud graduate of Oklahoma City University, and she and her husband raise two boys on the Upper West Side in Manhattan.