Sarah Baskin is a NYC-based actor and filmmaker originally from Montreal. Sarah's award-winning short film, Les Câlins Cheaps (Cheap Hugs) screened at over 30 film festivals. She recently completed her second short, i want to go to moscow, a dark comedy about the existential dread of being a woman in your 30's.

As an actor, Sarah has worked on stage (Off-Broadway, Regionally, NYC downtown theater) and screen (including “Ramy”, HBO’s “Gossip Girl”, “The Equalizer”, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”, several independent films). Most recently she can be seen in Netflix's film A Family Affair opposite Zac Efron and Joey King.

Sarah loves working with playwrights and developing new work. Favorite collaborations include working with Joan Tewkesbury (screenwriter of Robert Altman’s Nashville) on Retrospective, Hannah Rittner  on The Unbelievers, Three Women Mourning the Apocalypse and most recently Cheri Magid, with whom she has been developing a one woman play A Poem and a Mistake that contends with the 50 sexual assaults in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The Sydney Herald said “You’ll never think of classical literature again without these women coming into your head.” Other theatre credits include: Roundabout, American Repertory Theatre, Urban Stages, 59E59, Portland Center Stage, Capital Rep, and more.

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.