SARAH RUDINOFF IS WRITER, ACTOR
AND VOCALIST. She has lived and worked in
Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles,
Hawaii, and New York.
In Chicago, Ms. Rudinoff trained and then performed at The Second City, working with one of their original teachers, Martin De Matt. While in Chicago, she also directed Caryl Churchill’s A Mouthful of Birds at the Neo-futurarium (home to the creators of Urinetown! The Musical).
As a founding member of The Broken Theater in Seattle, she was seen in The Seagull, E.E. Cummings’ Him, and Steven Berkoff’s Decadence. As a member of Annex Theatre, she has been seen in Stage Door, Tank Plays, Hamlet, and the world premiers of new plays, The Second Greatest Story Ever Told,
and Derek Horton’s Cat Like Tread.
In Los Angeles, Ms, Rudinoff performed new plays at the Mark Taper Forum’s Second Stage, and with Circle X, and Improv Olympic. She returned to Seattle to play Yitzhak in Hedwig and the Angry Inch at Re-bar, then in 2001, completed a run of Negative Space, at Richard Foreman’s Ontological Hysteric in New York City.
Ms. Rudinoff has written, performed and toured with her solo shows around the world. Broad Perspective, directed by Kevin Kent, went on to tour the Adelaide Festival (Australia), Bumbershoot (Seattle), the HBO Workspace (Los Angeles). Go There, directed by Nick Garrison, played to sold-out houses in Seattle in the spring of 2003. She has since played it at Seattle's Town Hall, Bumbershoot, PICA's TBA Festival 2004 and 2005 and will be touring it to the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh summer 2006. Ms. Rudinoff's solo cabaret Last Year's Kisses will be playing at Theatre Off Jackson in Feb and March.
Ms. Rudinoff has performed cabaret at venues all over Seattle, including, The Pink Door, The Showbox, The OK Hotel, The Baltic Room, Sunset Tavern and Re-bar. She has sung at Les Deux Café in Los Angeles, and Joe’s Pub (at The Public) in New York City.
She was seen at The Empty Space in Ming the Rude, (L)imitations of Life and as Pa Ubu in Ubu Roi. She performed Smokey Joe's Cafe at the 5th Avenue Theatre, Alexander and the Horrible, Terrible, No Good Very Bad Day at the Seattle Children's Theatre and King Stag at the Seattle Repertory. Her newest solo show The Last State played at On the Boards in January 2005. Sarah will be playing Ruth in Wonderful Town at the 5th Ave. in the Spring.
Ms. Rudinoff has a B.A. from Pitzer College (Claremont Colleges) in Theater Performance, and trained for a year at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She is The Stranger’s 2004 Genius Award Winner for excellence in theatre.
