Sarah Loucks is a playwright and theater-maker from Iowa. She writes about things she finds incomprehensible, such as death, gender, and capitalism. A friend once described her writing as "Miss America getting wasted in the back of a pick-up truck.” She is currently a Post-MFA Artist at The Ohio State University.
Sarah is the recipient of a 2025 Artistic Innovations Award from Mid-America Arts Alliance, a 2024 MAPfund grant, an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council, and multiple Artist 360 awards from the Mid-America Arts Alliance. She is a four-time funding recipient from the Austin Cultural Arts Council and was awarded the Three New American Plays prize by Forward Flux Productions in 2017. Sarah co-produced DOLLY FEST 2019!, a performance festival dedicated to Dolly Parton at the Museum of Human Achievement in Austin, Texas.
Sarah was commissioned by TheatreSquared to write We Can Still Make Something Together, a new work developed in partnership with Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Other plays include Anatomy 101, A Mysterium (University of Arkansas), DQ; Or, Our Sovereign State (Stonehenge NYC, TheatreSquared, Theatre Midwest), Massive Ordnance Air Blast (Hyde Park Theatre, University of Arkansas), Songs for Drunk Cowboys Who May Also Be Women: An Anti-Musical, For Fools Only (TheatreSquared, Museum of Human Achievement), Crave Blue (Maestro George Theatre), and The Prostitute and the Cow (The VORTEX). Her plays have also been staged in warehouses, parking lots, and unknown backyards.
BA, Bard College; MFA in Playwriting, University of Arkansas.