The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

-Chekhov

Sarah Cosgrove Gaumond is an actor, writer, and director who hails from the Midwest. This year, Sarah was awarded a $5000.00 Artist & Scholars Project Grant from the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County, Maryland to further develop her play, North Wind. She is a two-time recipient of the John Cauble Award for Excellence in One-Act Playwriting from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region IV for her plays North Wind and I Live to Tell. As Social Media Manager of The Future is Female Festival, Sarah worked with Mya Kagan in creating a new play festival which took place at 27 outposts in 18 cities with new work by over 130 women, including her piece, It Would Have to be a Girl, which she performed at Chicago Dramatists. Other works include You'd Be So Much Prettier If You...with The Women’s Performance Workshop at Strand Theater Company in Baltimore, Unspoken at Hollins Playwrights Festival of New Works at Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke, Virginia, and Marina and The Unusual Fish, co-written with Triza Cox, for The Drama Lady Theatre Group in New York. Sarah trained as an actor with Sanford Meisner at The Neighborhood Playhouse and was Jeff nominated for her performance as Linda in Savage in Limbo with Inn Town Theater Company in Chicago. She acted in the films A League of Their Own and La Stanza Acconto. Sarah is a graduate of the theatre program at Illinois State University and earned an M.F.A. in Playwriting from Hollins University. She was a 2024-2025 member of The Playwrights Cohort at PlayPenn and is currently a member of The Dramatist Guild.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

-Chekhov

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