Santa Fe Art Institute

Sara Lyons

Sara Lyons is a Los Angeles-based director who seeks to explode form and politic in critically embodied, often interdisciplinary new theatre and performance works. Working frequently in adaptation, social practice, and new media as well as theater, their work has been presented nationally and internationally by REDCAT, The Kitchen, Los Angeles Performance Practice, OUTsider, SFX Festival, Ensemble Studio Theatre, HERE Arts Center, La MaMa ETC, Edinburgh Fringe, Antaeus Theatre Co, and more. They have received residencies at Lehigh University, Ucross Foundation, REDCAT Gallery, Thymele Arts, and PAM Residencies, among others.

Current projects include This Emancipation Thing (REDCAT), a participatory re-performance of feminist consciousness-raising circles, and Paul Outlaw’s BBC (Big Black Cockroach), a live horror farce unearthing embodied legacies of American violence against Black men (REDCAT 2024). Sara holds an MFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University and is an alum of EMERGENYC, a program for artists working at the intersection of performance and politics. Sara has taught at UCLA, Sarah Lawrence College, and Cal Poly Pomona.