Sara Marsh

SARA MARSH is a nationally recognized film, stage, and voiceover artist based in Minneapolis. For nine years, Sara has been Artistic Director of Dark & Stormy Productions, a professional Actors' Equity theater company named by City Pages as Best Theater in Minnesota (2016). Sara is adjunct faculty in the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and offers private acting and career development coaching.

Sara appears on stages across the Twin Cities. Most recently, she originated the role of Caroline Bryant in the world premiere of benevolence by Ifa Bayeza, directed by Talvin Wilks at Penumbra Theatre Company, and was seen in The Norwegians by C. Denby Swanson at Dark & Stormy Productions and as Lexie Richards in The Dixie Swim Club at Old Log Theater.

Sara’s film work includes Love Always, Santa (Hallmark), Sugar & Spice (New Line Cinema), Best Man Down (Magnolia Pictures), The Public Domain, Jasmine is a Star, and many others. Sara is a regular on the award-winning web series Theater People, streaming on Seeka TV, and she has lent her voice to thousands of television, radio, and internet spots.

NYC Web Fest AwardS:

NOMINEE: Best Supporting Actress, Theater People (Season 4), Seeka TV

Lavender Magazine:

Crème de la Creme Performances: Sara Marsh, Extremities, Dark & Stormy Productions

MINNPOST:

25 Best Arts Events of 2018: “Dark & Stormy’s ‘Night, Mother at the Grain Belt Warehouse. Marsha Norman’s unsettling play about a young woman’s final hours on earth was fearlessly acted by Sara Marsh and Sally Wingert on a set where some of the furnishings were suspended.”

Star Tribune:

10 Finest Theater Productions in the Twin Cities (multiple years):

“benevolence,” Penumbra Theatre Company.

"Extremities," Dark & Stormy Productions.

"Speed-the-Plow," Dark & Stormy Productions.

"A Behanding in Spokane," Gremlin Theatre.

City Pages:

BEST THEATER, 2016: Dark & Stormy Productions

10 Finest Theater Productions in the Twin Cities (multiple years):

Extremities. Dark & Stormy Productions. 

The Receptionist. Dark & Stormy Productions.

TWIN CITIES THEATER BLOGGERS (TCTB):

2020 TCTB Award Nominee: Favorite Dramatic Performance by an Individual: Sara Marsh - benevolence (Penumbra Theatre)

2019 TCTB Award Nominee: Favorite Dramatic Performance by an Individual: Sara Marsh - ‘Night, Mother (Dark & Stormy Productions)

"Marsh has slayed her varied roles."

"Patrons at a northeast Minneapolis coffee shop gave a wide berth to the raven-haired woman who babbled to herself with a distant look in her eyes on a recent rainy morning.

Not to worry. Actor and theater impresario Sara Marsh was just rehearsing her latest role.

She plays a schizophrenic daughter in "And So It Goes," a dark comedy about the financial, emotional and psychic costs of illness on a family already chastened by crisis. Marsh was rehearsing in the name of efficiency -- she is not only co-star of the show, but also artistic director of Dark & Stormy Productions, which is opening the play this week. Her docket was full, with press interviews to promote the production, grant applications to keep her company afloat, and voice-over work to support her own career.

A 5-foot-3 dynamo who holds an interviewer with her eyes, Marsh has taken the Twin Cities by storm with the company she founded four years ago. Dark & Stormy's noteworthy productions include William Mastrosimone's "Extremities," David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow," and Harold Pinter's "The Hothouse," all staged in unusual spaces where audiences are never more than a few feet from the actors.

The works have garnered strong reviews and put the company's name on the lips of tastemakers. Dark & Stormy recently became a full professional member of the Actors' Equity union, and City Pages just named it the best theater in the Twin Cities.

'Can you think of another person who has started a theater, and within five years made it into the best-of rankings while supplying Equity contracts?' asked Sally Wingert, the Guthrie stalwart who plays Marsh's mother in "And So It Goes."

'The fact that she's in those conversations is a credit to her intensity, focus, and dynamism.'" READ MORE

- Rohan Preston, Star Tribune