Sarah Jones is a Tony Award-winning playwright and performer. Her multi-character solo show "Bridge & Tunnel" was originally produced Off-Broadway by Oscar-winner Meryl Streep, and went on to become a critically acclaimed, long running hit on Broadway.
Educated at Bryn Mawr College and the United Nations International School, Sarah recently returned to her UN School roots by becoming a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, traveling as a spokesperson on violence against children, and performing for audiences from Indonesia to Ethiopia, the Middle East and Japan.
Winner of the 2007 Brendan Gill Prize, Sarah has also received grants, commissions and residencies from The Ford Foundation, NYSCA, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Civitella Rainieri, and others, and theater honors including an Obie Award, a Helen Hayes Award, two Drama Desk nominations, and HBO’s US Comedy Arts Festival’s Best One Person Show Award, as well as an NYCLU Calloway Award in recognition of Sarah as the first artist in history to sue the Federal Communications Commission for censorship. The lawsuit resulted in reversal of the censorship ruling, which had targeted her hip-hop poem recording, “Your Revolution.”
Recent performances have included multiple shows at The White House at the invitation of President and First Lady Obama, and a popular "TED talk" given at the world renown annual TED conference. Sarah is currently at work on a new solo-show commissioned by the Novo Foundation, as well as a commission for Lincoln Center Theater, and a television project based on her characters.