Phoenix Festival DIGITAL Playbill 2024 (2) - Flipbook - Page 10
WHO’S WHO: THE ARTISTS
SARA FARRINGTON (playwright)
Writer of traditional/non-traditional plays, Foxy Films co-founder w/
Reid Farrington. MFA: Brooklyn College w/ Mac Wellman. Publications: The Lost Conversation: Interviews with an Enduring Avant Garde
(53rd State Press/TCG), A Trojan Woman, Mickey & Sage (both @
Broadway Play Publishing). Plays nominated for 2 Drama Desk Awards
(Casablancabox). Plays include: A Trojan Woman (Luna Stage & tour:
Athens & Ireland), Dora Maar (Mercury Store & Brick Aux), Lucky Breaks (Brick & New
Ohio), Casablancabox (HERE Arts), Leisure, Labor, Lust (Tank & The Mount), Brandocapote
(Tank), The Return (commissioned/performed @ Metropolitan Museum of Art), Honduras
(also w/ Phoenix Theatre Ens. + 10 regional tours), Near Vicksburg (Incubator Arts), Mickey
& Sage (Incubator), The Rise & Fall of Miles & Milo (FringeNYC winner: Outstanding Playwriting). Film: Mendacity, of昀椀cial selection 2023 NY Indie Theater Film Festival. Residencies:
Mercury Store, HARP @ HERE, Tank, Brick Aux, Now-In-Process @ New Ohio, AFO Solo
Collective. Plays have toured nationally & internationally. Sara is an audiobook narrator and
voice actor, 昀椀ercely anti-fascist, an original Immigrant Families Together mom, #MeToo
champion. www.ladyfarrington.com
MEGHAN FINN (director)
Meghan is the Artistic Director of The Tank. She previously served
as the Associate Artistic Director at 3LD. Her directorial work has
been seen at the Tank, the V&A, Serpentine Galleries, The Wexner
Center, SCAD, The Logan Center for the Arts in Chicago, Museo
Jumex Mexico City, The Power Plant, Canadian Stage, Carnegie
Mellon, Brooklyn College, MIT, NYU, the Great Plains Theater Conference and others. She has directed three world premieres by playwright Mac Wellman,
including most recently The Invention of Tragedy (2019). Other recent credits include:
I Am Nobody, a new musical by Greg Kotis (Urinetown) at The Tank; as well as The Nine
Dreams: Blake & the Apocalypse, by writer Nick Flynn (昀椀lm). She directed a short 昀椀lm by
playwright Peggy Stafford called 16 Words or Less which has been screened at indie 昀椀lm
festivals nationally and in Europe. She is a frequent collaborator of conceptual artist and
sculptor Pedro Reyes, and directed Doomocracy for Creative Time. Finn collaborated
with photographer Mitch Epstein on a live performance with cellist Erik Friedlander as well
as celebrated premieres by Erin Courtney, Sara Farrington, Peggy Stafford, Gary Winter,
Ben Gassman, Alexandra Collier, Carl Holder, Eliza Bent and Cori Copp. When We Went
Electronic by Caitlyn Saylor Stephens which premiered at The Tank in 2018 toured in 2021
to The Roes Theater in Athens Greece and OnStage! Festival Rome and Milan. She holds
