1. Sarah Ream
sream@exeter.edu
603-275-6943 (c)
20 Main Street, Exeter, NH 03833
US/UK citizen
Theater Directing:
British Fringe and Regional Theatre. Plays directed at the following include:
National Theatre of Great Britain
Staff Director/ Director of RNT Platform performances, teacher with RNT Education outreach dept.,
teaching workshops on acting technique, specific plays and playwrights (The Crucible,
Romeo and Juliet, Camino Real.) and Shakespeare for children and teens around the country.
Plays directed include: Tennessee Williams vs. the Critics (touring platform show, devised with the cast
from the RNT Cat production) Speed the Plow (revival of RNT production for national tour). Worked as
staff director for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (with Howard Davies) at RNT and on Broadway, The
Shaughraun (with Howard Davies), Speed the Plow (with Greg Mosher) and The Pied Piper (with
Adrian Mitchell).
National Theatre and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner conducting,
Director, Beatrice and Benedict with RNT actors & the Academy orchestra, Royal Festival Hall, London
Director, creator, Lovers of Spring with actors and the Academy string quartet, Wigmore Hall, London
Salisbury Playhouse, Salisbury. Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune and Double, Double
Viceroy Theater, London, Blue Window (Time Out Pick-of-the-Week)
Sheffield Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, Born Yesterday
New York Off-Broadway and Regional Theater. Plays directed at the following include:
New York Theater Workshop, A Narrow Bed (premiere) by Ellen McLaughlin,
Manhattan Theater Club, A Narrow Bed (workshop & staged reading)
Playwrights Horizons, Knights of Doubt premiere, (reading & workshop) by Mary Kay Hamalainen
Judith Anderson Theater, Theater Row, The Misanthrope
Compass Theater (founder) Journey's End, Under Distant Skies (premiere), Lone Star
Laundry and Bourbon, DEROS on the Funny Farm (premiere) plus workshops with Juilliard opera
students, working on Cosi Fan Tutti and The Marriage of Figaro
The Writer's Theater, Imaginary Lovers (premiere) by Tom Fontana, Almost Perfect Strangers, All-
Nights, All the Queen's Men: a Collection of Poetry by Prison Inmates
Vermont Ensemble Theater (founding member), The Misanthrope, Our Town, Blue Window
Williamstown Theater Festival, MA, Director, Pre-Equity company: The Porch Show, The Bed Show,
The Bar Show, one-act play festivals & new plays by Tom Fontana.
Assistant director to Nikos Psacharopoulos, Austin Pendleton, and Norman Ayrton
British and American Drama Schools. Plays directed at the following include:
Central School of Speech and Drama, London, Ah, Wilderness!, The Crucible, As You Like It, The
Time of Your life, The Changeling
Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, Touched, Love of the Nightingale, The
Learned Ladies, The Dining Room, Chanticler
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, Lady from the Sea
Mountview Theatre School, London, Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, And
Miss Reardon Drinks a Little
Central School of Ballet, London
Instructor, Improvisational Acting and Theater Games for ballet students
American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco
Associate Director ACT and Co-director of Plays-in-Progress new plays program.
Assistant Director on: I Remember Mama (with Allen Fletcher), Wings (with Ed Hastings),

2. Director, Conservatory program, Ring Round the Moon; assisted and studied with William Ball
San Francisco State University, Hay Fever
Literary Development Work: Literary Development Assistant and Script/Manuscript Reader:
The William Morris Agency NYC, Fries Entertainment, The Writer's Theater, Daniel Wilson
Productions, New York Shakespeare Festival, Circle Repertory Theater, Williamstown Theatre
Festival, and Manhattan Theater Club
Casting Work:
The Public Theater, New York
Casting Assistant to Rosemarie Tichler, Casting Director for Public Theater/NY Shakespeare Festival
Teaching:
Stanford University Summer Institute: Teaching workshops on the Arts and Citizenship
Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
Chair, Dept. of Theater and Dance
Instructor in English and Drama
Brown Award for Excellence in Teaching
Co-founder and teacher, Exeter Shakespeare Conference
Exeter Shakespeare Conference Director
Director, Stratford-upon-Avon student program in England
Director, Summer Alumni London Theatre Tour
Courses taught at Exeter include: Epistemology: Ways of Knowing (co-taught with colleagues in
Physics and Religion), 9th to 12th grade English, Shakespeare, Directing, Beginning, Intermediate and
Advanced Acting (teaching Stanislavski, Hagen, & Meisner technique), Playwriting, Screenwriting,
Speech Making, Novels into Film, Great Short Stories, Poetry Stage (staged poetry performances,
devised with students): Women of the Middle East, Spoken Word Slam Poetry, Elizabeth Bishop in Rio
Plays/musicals directed at Exeter include: The Mahabharata, Tsao Yu's Thunderstorm, Dido and
Aeneas, Sweeney Todd, The Importance of Being Earnest, Antigone, Little Women, Fiddler on the
Roof, Love's Labor's Lost, South Pacific, A Prayer for Owen Meany (American premiere), The Dispute,
The Mikado, Journey's End, A Flea in her Ear, School for Wives, The Three Sisters, The Mill on the
Floss Staged readings for campus human rights workshops include: Guantanamo, Speak Truth to
Power, The Laramie Project, All the Queen’s Men (prison poetry)
Education, Training and Awards for Drama:
Second Rounder (top 15% out of 9,100 scripts) in the 2016 Austin Film festival & Screenwriters
Conference for two different sitcom scripts.
Finalist in the 2015 Cinequest Screenwriting Competition (top 10 out of 1200 script submissions for
Fortitude).
Selected for top 20% of submissions to 2014 Nicholl Screenwriting Competition (out of over 7500) for
Fortitude.
Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, London
Post-graduate training program in acting
Yale University, B.A. Cum Laude, Theater Studies and English Literature
Nabstedt Merit Scholar for the Arts, awarded annually on artistic merit

3. Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH, 1972-1975
Sarah Ream
Scripts Written:
Grace and Frankie: The Waves: Spec comedy script for half-hour single camera sit com: the blended families
share their first Thanksgiving and discover big lumps in the blending.
Out of Wedlock: When faced with the prospect of paying lifelong alimony in her new marriage, a second wife
determines to find a new husband for her husband’s ex-wife. Romantic comedy.
Fortitude: Film script based on the true story of a Spanish double agent and his MI5 handler who developed a
network of almost 30 fictional spies and, with the aid of a single telegram, saved D-Day and the Allied invasion of
Europe
Fogies: Television situation comedy about a group of aging baby boomers who refuse to retire – and start a temp
agency where no one under 60 need apply.
Dream Catcher: Film script based on the true story of a Lakota Sioux warrior who traveled to and died in London a
century ago and the woman who helps him find his way home to the Badlands 100 years later.
Basic Biology: One-hour script about the ways in which people fashion families for themselves in the midst of
emotional chaos. When the traditional family falls apart, how do you put back the pieces?
Getting to Moscow: Novel about four female friends in the theater and the friendship that evolves between them
over 15 years, Originally represented by Ann Wright Agency.
Corinthian Jazz: Film script, romantic comedy, set in the 1920s, about a love affair between two people who keep
missing each other – until their guardian angels get involved.
Shells: Short one act drama, adapted for BBC radio, about the relationship between two veterans: one from WWI
and one from Vietnam. What do you do when your war is meaningless?
Chimone and the Whale Watchers: Romantic comedy film script about the unlikely friendship that develops
between a kid from Harlem and the Yuppies whose flat he robs.
The War Room: Co-authored with Joan Wickersham, a television treatment and pilot script based on true stories
about young actors working as temps in a Wall Street investment bank. Originally represented by William Morris
Agency.
A Hazard of New Fortunes (adaptation of William Dean Howells novel): Full-length play set in late 19
th
century
Manhattan, exploring the central question Howells poses: “How much money can a man make without blood on his
hands?” work-shopped through 29
th
Street Theatre Project,
Romans: Set in the 1980s, full-length play about the lives of gay men in the Presbyterian Church. What do you do
when your vocation is at odds with your sense of self?
Fanfare: Historical drama, re-imagining an answer to one of history’s great military puzzles: how did Louis XIV’s
unvanquished French army, against all odds, lose the Battle of Blenheim to the unseasoned Duke of Marlborough?
The play imagines the vital role that a travelling actor’s troupe played.
All Nighters: Full-length play, co-authored with Joan Wickersham, dealing with the lives of girls at a formerly all
male boarding school. Work shopped at the Writer’s Theater, New York.
Ace of Clubs: Musical based on the lives and loves of the Algonquin Round Table. First produced and performed
at the Yale University Dramatic Association.