Sarah Kimberly Becker is a theatre director, actor, playwright, and educator based in the greater NYC area. Her plays volley between naturalism and the extraordinary while centering on women’s narratives. Through directing and playwriting, Becker constructs visceral worlds that emphatically nod to magic, the gothic, and the Weird. Influenced by her musical hometown of Austin, Texas, Becker’s words and direction move like music. In her plays Victoria Street, From the Other Room, and nekkid, Becker explores rhythm and tempo TO DEFINE SPACE, TIME, AND RELATIONSHIPS. HER character-driven narratives UNEARTH MESSY TRUTHS ABOUT FAMILY, DESIRE, AND POWER. all plays received development at Sarah Lawrence College.

As an actor, Becker’s work  spanned the greater Southwest at celebrated regional theatres such as The Catastrophic Theatre (Houston), Street Corner Arts, Austin Playhouse, and most notably, ZACH Theatre (Austin). In 2019, Becker starred in the premiere of a new adaptation of Dracula, written and directed by Stephen Dietz. Her performance was critically lauded as “one with grace . . .  nuance,” by the Austin Chronicle.  IN 2018, She performed as Emma  in Curse of the Starving Class BY SAM SHEPHERD at The Catastrophic Theatre alongside Houston theatre giants. Most recently, Becker made her NYC debut at The Tank in K. Stanger’s new play 100 Feet in the Air.  she also directed stanger’s sunbeam for THEATRE NOW NEW YORK’S SOUNDBITES FESTIVAL, AND DIRECTED A STAGED READING OF STANGER’S ORACLE AT LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE (NOW PUBLISHED).

as an educator, becker is a champion and leader of educational communities. her teaching responds to and supports RIGOROUS ACADEMIC environments, individual student needs or curiosities, and the UNIQUE MAKEUP OF THE class (or production) itself. Becker challenges her students to engage with theatre that masquerades as inaccessible, namely By exposing her students to great theatrical works AND ARTISTS and incorporating diverse populations into these opportunities. Becker provides her students with access to a historically exclusionary art form through dramatic literature, practice, anD dramaturgy. She firmly believes all theatre can, and should, be accessible. from 2021-2023 becker SERVED AS the director of theatre at townview magnet center in dallas, texas. in 2024 she directed a new play for Sarah Lawrence’s mainstage “new works” series, and later directed COLLEGE students in clown and in her embodied thesis moonbelly. most recently, BECKER WAS a visiting director for manhattanville university’s immersive production of fefu and her friends by maria irene fornes at reid castle.

Becker’s approach to ensemble and collaboration is inclusive, kooky, and ecstatically fun. She inspires young people to take ownership of their art through generous and kind artistic exchange. Her artistic practice channels theatre as a means to uplift, question, and revel in the human condition. Her work explores new means of telling stories while paying homage to the theatre makers of yesterday. She mines classic texts for resonant, human truths that are then reinvented and reinvigorated within a contemporary and spatially conscious context.

Becker hold an Mfa in Theatre and Performance at Sarah Lawrence College where she received the Stanley and evelyn lipkin prize for playwriting.