Really Inventive Stuff, co-founder, actor

In 2004, Sara co-founded Really Inventive Stuff.  In 2007, she made her solo orchestra debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Sara is also co-creator of Taphotopia.com.  A new YouTube series that visits cemeteries, meets fascinating previously-living people, and shares great stories one grave at a time.

For the 24-25 season, she makes her debut with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra (Toy Symphony, Three Fun Fables, Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra), Dubuque Symphony Orchestra (Toy Symphony), Omaha Symphony (Toy Symphony), Winston-Salem Symphony (Toy Symphony), Williamsburg Symphony Orchestra (Toy Symphony), and the Colorado College Summer Music Festival (Toy Symphony). She returns to the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (Three Fun Fables, Toy Symphony), and the Kansas City Symphony (Three Fun Fables, Toy Symphony). More dates for the 2025 season to be announced soon.

As a member of Really Inventive Stuff, Sara has performed family concerts with orchestras around North America, including Philadelphia, Saint Louis, Winnipeg, Kansas City, Richmond, Rochester, Annapolis, Charlotte, New Haven, Portland (Maine), Princeton, Symphony in C, Richmond, Richardson, Harrisburg, Texarkana and Tulane University.  In 2014, she made her international debut with the Singapore Symphony as narrator for Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, appearing as Ms. Symphonia Semi d’Quaver - a renowned British “orchestra-ologist” and ardent fan of Henry Purcell.

Her orchestra performances also include Beyond the Score presentations with the The Philadelphia Orchestra (Elgar’s The Enigmas Variations and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony) and the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra (Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony).

Regional theater credits include Philadelphia’s Arden Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company, Resident Ensemble Players, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, and the Shakespeare festivals of North Carolina, Philadelphia, Colorado, and Maine.

Sara is Assistant Professor and the Chair of the Department of Theatre at the University of Southern Maine, and continues to develop family programming for orchestras as co-founder and creative director of ReallyInventiveStuff.com. She is a graduate of Ithaca College and the Professional Theatre Training Program (PTTP) at the University of Delaware.