Sara Porkalob truly believes stories can change the world.
Her story begins in the PNW plus a brief stint living in a gay commune with her lesbian parents in Anchorage, AK when she was 4-9 years old. She graduated from Cornish College of the Arts with a BFA and crippling trauma which she later turned into a full blown, multi-hyphenate theater career thanks to the unending support from her family and the incredible privilege of growing up wholly loved and affirmed in a queer, BIPOC household ran by two emotionally intelligent and fiercely authentic women. Sara is proud to say that all of her work centers the joyful amplification of the complex, intersectional, BIPOC experience.
Awards and nominations include: 2021 Princess Grace Award Winner for Theater, 2020 nominee Seattle Mayor’s Arts Award, Seattle Times 11 Movers and Shakers to Watch this Decade, 2019 nominee for Americans for the Arts Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities, Seattle Magazine’s 2018's Most Influential People , and 2017 City Art's Futures List. She is a co-founder of DeConstruct, an online journal of intersectional performance critique. Broadway: Edward Rutledge in the official revival of the musical 1776.
She is also a 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 equity in non-arts policy areas like the environment, housing, workforce and community development.
She is currently under commission by the Geffen Playhouse, working on the TV adaptation of The Dragon Cycle, and writing her first feature film.
