Sarah is a QUEER, NEURODIVERGENT FilmMAKER + ARTIST BASED IN LOS ANGELES.

Born and raised in the agricultural community of Alamosa, Colorado, a town infamous for it’s connection to the paranormal, Sarah is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts program for Film & Television where she also studied Neuroscience and Ancient Religion.

Sarah’s original television pilot Cottonwood was selected as Series Fest's Featuring Women Initiative’s Grand Prize Winner, and featured in a live read at the Denver Film Festival. It was also presented at the IFP Project Forum and featured in the 2020 WeForShe List.

Sarah's feature documentary, American Bear: An Adventure in the Kindness of Strangers was distributed in 2015.  After screening over 75 times as part of a limited theatrical release and educational screening tour throughout the U.S., American Bear can now be found online at iTunes, Amazon, Barnes and Noble and more. 

With their production company, Sarah has directed branded content for nonprofits and educational institutions, including two web series. Sarah’s third short narrative film - Hold Your Arms Out, was one of 9 projects offered a fellowship at Hewlett-Packard’s inaugural post-production program at Sundance Film Festival, and it screened at festivals across the country.

Sarah was a finalist for the Series Fest Directing Program with Shondaland, as well as the Directing Mentorship Program through Women in Film.

Currently, Sarah works as a Writer’s Assistant on Netflix’s The Abandons, previously on Black Summer for which she wrote an episode. They have worked on shows at SyFy, Netflix and Amazon. 

Sarah’s work has been supported by IFP, Women In Film, Series Fest, The Stowe Story Labs, Cinestory, CDDP, Austin Film Festival and more.

They are a founding member of Third Space artist’s collective — a group of artist, activist, witches working to bring about a new America. 

Sarah is also a professional tarot reader, with a focus on using tarot for storytellers and writers.