Playwright

Sara
Porkalob

(she/they)

Sara Porkalob is a theater maker, cultural worker, and creator of The Dragon Cycle, a trilogy of matrilineal musicals about her Filipino-American, badass family. Awards and nominations include: 2021 Princess Grace Award Winner for Theater, 2020 nominee Seattle Mayor’s Arts Award, The Seattle Times “11 Movers and Shakers to Watch this Decade,” 2019 nominee for Americans for the Arts Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities, and Seattle Magazine’s “2018’s Most Influential People.” She recently made her Broadway debut playing “Edward Rutledge” in the official revival of 1776. She’s a consultant with the City of Seattle and their Creative Strategies Initiative (CSI), a new City effort that uses arts- and culture-based approaches to build racial equity in non-arts policy areas like the environment, housing, workforce, and community development. @sporkalob & www.saraporkalob.com

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