Sarah Elizabeth Bedard

Professor Bedard is a working actor, director and theatre educator in Boston and New York. Some of the companies she has worked with include Gloucester Stage Company, Speakeasy Stage Company, Huntington Theatre Company, Lyric Stage Company, the Nora Theatre Company, One Year Lease Theatre Company, Actor’s Shakespeare Project, Front Porch Arts Collective, Shakespeare and Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Mettawee River Theatre, Company One, Boston Public Works, Fresh Ink, Off the Grid Theatre Company and Bad Habit Productions. She directs regularly at Greater Boston Stage Company. Recent directing credits include Clue, The Sparrow, She Kills Monsters, Urinetown, Cabaret, Big Fish, Mary Poppins, and Bat Boy. She is a co-artistic director of The Actors Revolution and is a proud member of Actor's Equity Association. At BSU, Sarah has directed Dracula, Heathers, Deal Me Out, Urinetown and Antigone Ablaze. She teaches Acting, Directing, Voice and Movement for the Actor, Children's Theatre, FYS Women in Theatre, SYS Theatre and Adaptation, American Musical Theatre, Theatre Appreciation, as well as several Honors Theatre courses in the Department. Sarah regularly serves as the directing mentor for Student Repertory Theatre and is an advisor, honors project mentor and honors thesis project mentor to her students.