Actor & Playwright

Sara
Porkalob

(she/her/they)

Sara Porkalob is a storyteller, cultural worker, and creator of The Dragon Cycle, a trilogy of matrilineal musicals about her Filipina American gangster family; one play for each generation built around a central female protagonist. The first in the cycle, Dragon Lady, premiered at Intiman Theatre in 2017 and won three 2018 Gregory Awards for Outstanding Sound/Music Design, Outstanding Actress in a Musical, and Outstanding Musical Production, and the 2023 San Francisco Bay Area Theater Critics Choice for Solo Performance. The second in the cycle, Dragon Mama, premiered at American Repertory Theatre in 2019 and won two Elliot Norton Awards for Outstanding New Script and Outstanding Solo Performance, and the 2023 Craig Noel’s Outstanding Lead Performance in San Diego. The final play, Dragon Baby, is currently under a Geffen Playhouse finishing commission. Awards and nominations include: 2021 Princess Grace Award Winner for Theater, 2020 nominee Seattle Mayor’s Arts Award, The Seattle Times “11 Movers and Shakers to Watch this Decade,” 2019 nominee for Americans for the Arts Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities, and Seattle Magazine’s “2018’s Most Influential People.” Broadway: 1776. She’s a Creative Consultant with the City of Seattle and their Creative Strategies Initiative (CSI), a new city effort that uses arts- and culture-based approaches to build racial and gender equity in non-arts policy areas like the environment, housing, workforce, and community development. She is also writing her first feature film! @sporkalob & www.saraporkalob.com

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