Originally from Montreal, Sarah Baskin is an award winning filmmaker and actor based in NYC. Sarah’s award-winning directorial debut, Les Câlins Cheaps (Cheap Hugs), is a bilingual short film based on a play by French-Canadian playwright Annick Lefebvre. It has screened at over 20 film festivals so far, and won several awards including Best Drama at both Toronto Shorts International Film Festival and New York CineFest. Her next film is to be shot Dec 2023 in NYC. It’s a dramedy about the existential dread of being a woman in your 30’s — inspired by Three Sisters and Sarah’s experience teaching acting to kids.

As an actor, Sarah has worked on stage (Off-Broadway, Regionally, Internationally), and on screen (HBO, Amazon, Hulu, Netflix, independent films +). Upcoming projects include a supporting role in Netflix film A Family Affair (opp. Zac Efron, Joey King).

Sarah loves collaborating with playwrights and developing new work. Favorite collaborations include working with esteemed writers Joan Tewkesbury (screenwriter of Robert Altman’s Nashville) on Retrospective, Hannah Rittner on The Unbelievers, Three Women Mourning the Apocalypse and the development of Elijah and Cheri Magid, with whom she recently co-created a one woman play A Poem and a Mistake that contends with the 50 sexual assaults in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. It premiered as a film/play hybrid in 2021 at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), and the Sydney Herald said “You’ll never think of classical literature again without these women coming into your head.”

Behind the camera, Sarah makes stories that follow a specifically feminine narrative, both in content and form. She’s also influenced by her many years coaching brilliant actors of all ages, and seeks to capture the raw and idiosyncratic moments that bring stories to life.

Sarah is a company member of The Actors Center, Subway Token Films, and has an MFA in Acting from American Repertory Theatre / Moscow Art Theatre School at Harvard University.