Book & Lyrics
Sarah Rossman is a writer, performer, and comedian based in NYC.
As an artist across mediums, she strives to generate narratives about mental illness and trauma that combat stigma, validate individual experiences, and spark joy and laughter.
She is passionate about communicating uncomfortable truths to audiences using humor and writing at the speed of thought. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Maestra and ASCAP.
Sarah’s work has been performed at the Williamstown Theater Festival, the American Repertory Theater (The Emperor’s New Clothes), Green Room 42, The Other Palace Theatre in London, 54 Below, NY Theater Festival (2022 Best Production Short Winner) and with Prospect Musicals (2025 MT Writers Lab). Her radio play "Intrusive Thot" is a. 2025 winner of the Radiophrenia festival in Scotland.
Sarah has a B.A. in Theatre, Dance, and Media from Harvard College and an M.F.A. from the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at NYU Tisch School of the Arts (Betty Green-Fischoff Scholar and Horace W Goldsmith Scholar).
Music
Sequoia Sellinger is a composer, educator, and collaborative theater artist based in New York City.
She aims to create work that is accessible, relatable, funny, and reimagines the possibilities of what the world could be.
She challenges traditional storytelling expectations by writing through a feminist and anti-racist lens. Her work in community-building echoes in her work as an artist and educator because she believes collaboration is practice for living and allows us to create the world we want to live in (and sing in) together.
Sequoia holds an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU Tisch (ASCAP Max Dreyfus Award & Schubert Scholarship), as well as a Bachelors of Music in Composition from Purchase Conservatory of Music.
She studied composition at Nadia Boulanger’s Conservatoire in Paris. Sequoia’s work has been performed at Ars Nova, Joe’s Pub, 54 Below, Green Room 42, College of the Atlantic, Dartmouth, The York Theatre, Musical Theatre Factory, MacDowell Arts Colony, and American Opera Projects. She is in the 2025 Prospect Musical Theater Lab Cohort. Original musicals include: “Next Year in Connecticut!”, “Earth First!” (Macdowell Fellowship, College of the Atlantic, Dartmouth), “Silent Springs” (BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop), “Impossible Green” (The York Theatre, Musical Theatre Factory), and “Gravity of Me Gone” (Ars Nova ANT Fest).
Her micro-opera “It’s Noon, Do You Know Where Your House Plants Are?” was premiered by American Opera Projects this past May 2024. She is an alum of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and New Dramatists Composer-Librettist Studio and is a proud member of both the Dramatists Guild and Maestra.