SARAH RUDINOFF IS WRITER, ACTOR
AND VOCALIST. She has lived and worked in Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles,
Hawaii, and New York.

“Rudinoff’s stage presence is thermonuclear (in a darling kind of way) and the golden gospel gravel of her sometimes soprano can ride a jazzy tune like a Harley on the bad road to heaven.”          
Adrian Ryan, The Stranger

“Sarah Rudinoff takes the show to don't-miss territory. There's a subtle difference between a good actor and a monologuist, a willingness to accept the audience's full attention on your story and
repay that interest.”
Michael van Baker, The Seattlest

Sarah as Itzak in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, 2001

“In case you haven’t already, you should now officially put Sarah Rudinoff at the top of your Reasons to See Live Theater list.  She gives a performance so entertaining you know everyone else will get a kick out of it, but so filled with singular pleasures you’ll swear you’re the only one who really knows what makes it work.”
Steve Wiecking, Seattle Metropolitan Magazine

 

Named alongside legendary blues singer
Ernestine Anderson as one of the two Seattle female vocalists with “pipes to die for” by this year’s Seattle Magazine Music Portfolio, Sarah Rudinoff has been singing and making theatrical mayhem in Seattle for 15 years.  Rudinoff is an actress, singer and writer who has lived and worked from New York to Los Angeles.  
Go There!
 

Rudinoff was educated at Iolani School in Honolulu, Hawaii and then went on to earn a B.A. in theatre performance at the Claremont Colleges.  She spent a year studying acting with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

 

Ms. Rudinoff trained and then performed at The Second City in Chicago, working with one of their original teachers, Martin De Matt.  Sarah has appeared in world premiers of new plays in Seattle including The Second Greatest Story Ever Told, Tank Plays and Derek Horton’s Cat Like Tread (Annex Theatre) and Ming the Rude, (L)imitations of Life and as Pa Ubu in Ubu Roi
(The Empty Space).

 
 

Sarah was the first actor to play Yitzhak in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, outside of the original NYC production, when it played at Re-bar in Seattle, in 2000, and in 2001, she completed a run of Negative Space, at Richard Foreman’s Ontological Hysteric in New York City as part of the Blue Print Series.

 

Ms. Rudinoff has written, performed and toured with her solo shows around the world.  Broad, directed by Kevin Kent, went on to tour the Adelaide Festival (Australia), Bumbershoot (Seattle), and the HBO Workspace (Los Angeles).  Go There, directed by Nick Garrison, played to sold-out houses in Seattle in the spring of 2003, and has since played at Seattle’s Town Hall, Bumbershoot, PICA’s TBA festival (Portland), and The Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh).  Sarah’s latest solo work, The Last State, about growing up as a non-native in Hawaii, had its Seattle premiere at On the Boards.

 

Ms. Rudinoff has sung and 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, Joe’s Pub in New York City, and most recently opened for Kiki and Herb in Seattle.
 

Last season she was seen in The King Stag and Murderers at the Seattle Repertory Theatre and as Ruth in the 5th Avenue’s smash hit Wonderful Town.  Her all music cabaret Last Year’s Kisses played to sold out houses this spring and she has just
released an EP of original tunes with her
band We Are Golden. 

 

Ms. Rudinoff is on the board of On The Boards which brings cutting edge performance to Seattle from the Northwest and around the world.  She gives her time hosting benefits for arts organizations from Velocity Dance Center to the Henry Art Gallery.  Ms. Rudinoff is the winner of The Stranger’s 2004 Genius Award in Theatre.