Sarah Taylor Ellis

SARAH TAYLOR ELLIS is a composer, teaching artist and scholar based in Berlin. Recent compositions include the National Theatre's Hamlet for young audiences, a hybrid musical/chamber opera adaptation of The Trojan Women (recipient of a 2019 OPERA America Discovery Grant) and the original feminist rock musical These Girls Have Demons . Sarah has taught with ArtsEd, the University of Chester, the Nightingale-Bamford School, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, Roundabout Theatre Company and UCLA. Sarah...See more

SARAH TAYLOR ELLIS is a composer, teaching artist and scholar based in Berlin. Recent compositions include the National Theatre's Hamlet for young audiences, a hybrid musical/chamber opera adaptation of The Trojan Women (recipient of a 2019 OPERA America Discovery Grant) and the original feminist rock musical These Girls Have Demons . Sarah has taught with ArtsEd, the University of Chester, the Nightingale-Bamford School, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, Roundabout Theatre Company and UCLA. Sarah's theatre criticism and scholarship have been published in American Theatre, L.A. Weekly, Studies in Musical Theatre , and anthologies with Palgrave and Routledge. She holds a Ph.D. in Theater & Performance Studies from UCLA and a B.A. in Theater Studies/Music and English from Duke University. See less