Sarah Knapp has been involved in the musical theatre as a writer
and performer for the past seventeen years. She recently received
a commission from the National Alliance of Musical Theatre Producers
and Maine State Music Theater to write a musical about noted historical
figure, Joshua L. Chamberlain. Chamberlain: A True Civil War
Romance was produced at Maine State in August of 1996. Her
musical, The Library, was awarded a National Endowment
for the Arts production grant in 1993, selected for workshop development
by The New Harmony Project, and and was produced at Stamford Theatre
Works, April 17 - May 5, 1996. She is currently at work The
Immigrant, to be produced at the new CAP21 Theatre in the
fall, on a chamber opera, Rappaccini's Daughter, and Me
Again. The Audition, a music theatre piece, was selected
for performance in Manhattan Class Company's Festival of Short
Works. She has served on the Opera-Musical Theatre selection panel
for the National Endowment for the Arts-New American Works.
As a performer, Ms. Knapp has been seen on Broadway in The
Scarlet Pimpernel; off-Broadway: Amnesia in the original Nunsense,
Smoke on the Mountain, "No-Frills" Revue, Godspell,
Gifts of the Magi, Opal, The Wonderful "O". Broadway
workshop: Lily in Jekyll and Hyde. Regionally: Madame Vinard
in Svengali at Asolo and Alley Theatres. Mrs. Ford in Merry
Wives of Windsor, Texas at Cincinnati Playhouse and The Baker's
Wife in Into the Woods and Eliza Doolittle in My Fair
Lady at Maine State Music Theatre. Two Annie 2's: Kennedy
Center, and then as Grace at Goodspeed. European tour: Eleanor
in Richard Foreman's Africanis Instructus. Recordings:
Gifts of the Magi, Scarlet Pimpernel, and Harold Arlen/Vernon
Duke Revisited, No. 2.