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Sarah Hickler is a physical theater performer, actor, director, and movement and theater educator. Her devised movement/theater and interdisciplinary performance work has been produced in theaters, museums and galleries throughout New England, at Austen Art Center (CT), Theater Lab and Lincoln Center Festival (NYC), and Mercury Theatre (U.K.). She performs regularly with Action Theater ensembles and Susan Dibble Dance Theater, and as a former member of Mobius Artists Group has collaborated with experimental dance, media and performance artists from the U.S. and abroad. Hickler has directed productions for Sedona Shakespeare, LA Women’s Shakespeare, Sun Valley Shakespeare, M.I.T Shakespeare Ensemble and Emerson Stage. She was resident movement director/choreographer for LA Women’s Shakespeare Co. and Actor’s Shakespeare Project, and has been movement director/choreographer on over thirty professional and college productions in Boston, Los Angeles and NYC. She has been on the faculty of graduate and undergraduate programs including Brandeis University, Boston University, Boston Conservatory, School of Museum of Fine Arts, Shakespeare Sedona and Shakespeare & Co. Author of In the Moment: A Practical Guide to Movement & Improvisation for Actors, Hickler is certified in Authentic Movement facilitation, and is a certified and recommended teacher of Action Theater™.

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Education

B.F.A., Massachusetts College of Art & Design
M.F.A., Boston University