Sarah McCarron is a queer Los Angeles and Minneapolis-based writer who works in television, film, and theatre. Current projects include: co-executive producer on Netflix’s THE ABANDONS, currently in production starring Gillian Anderson and Lena Headey. Other TV credits include: HBO Max’s Emmy-nominated series STATION ELEVEN starring Mackenzie Davis and Himesh Patel; the single camera comedy MADE FOR LOVE, adapted from the book by Alissa Nutting and starring Ray Romano; adapting the best selling memoir UNTAMED with Glennon Doyle for Bad Robot and HBOMax, starring Emmy-winner Sarah Paulson; developing Apple TV’s LURE with Robert Downey, Jr.; developing Ink Factory's SECRETS WE KEPT; writing for Amblin's & Showtime's HALO (currently in production), and writing for David Milch’s Redboard Productions on the HBO drama LUCK starring Dustin Hoffman. Her original one-hour drama CRUDE, about the global blackmarket of oil extraction, is in development with Participant Media and Executive Producer Uzodinma Iweala (Beasts of No Nation). Her comedy feature about queer marriage, D.I.Y., received a development grant from the Duplass Brothers and is currently optioned by Patrick Somerville's Tractor Beam Productions. Sarah’s film THE BEND, which she wrote and directed about a trans man in rural America, is currently on the festival circuit , including the Oscar-qualifying Provincetown Film Festival.
Sarah holds an MFA in Ensemble Devised Physical Theatre from the London International School of the Performing Arts, in the movement-based pedagogy of Jacques Lecoq. She been commissioned to develop new plays in both Europe and the United States, including with Obie Award-winning Pig Iron Theatre Company. She has collaborated with and developed work through Roy & Edna Disney Cal Arts Theatre (REDCAT); UCLA with Sylvan Oswald; and Sorority, a queer performances salon in Los Angeles curated by Gina Young, sponsored by the Hammer. As an Artist Fellow for the Dalai Lama’s Mind & Life Institute, Sarah researched the relationship between the physical body, psychological states of mind, and narrative subjectivity. She was a Writer in Residence at the William Inge Center for the Arts; has taught Writing From The Body and Developing An Idea Through Movement in the Experimental Animation Program at CalArts; taught at University of the Arts in Philadelphia; and has been a guest lecturer at NYU. She is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre Los Angeles.
