Sara Felder
Biography

Sara Felder is an accomplished juggler and performer as well as an award-winning playwright. She has toured with Jugglers for Peace in Cuba, the Klezmatics in Europe, and Joel Grey’s Borscht Capades in Ft. Lauderdale. She also performs a school show on conflict resolution called Work it Out with Doug Nolan and has partnered too many times with Scott Meltzer. To this day, she still hates mouse traps.

Sara has taught juggling/performance to inmates at San Quentin and Vacaville Medical Facility. Presently she teaches classes in comedy and solo performance, recently at San Francisco State University and Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

Her solo plays, including June Bride, Out of Sight, and Melancholy: A Comedy, have earned rave reviews:

“Wry, funny, smart, lovable, a lot like an old Woody Allen monologue.”
• Washington Post

“Felder’s comic and emotional timing is as sharply honed as her manual dexterity.”
• San Francisco Chronicle

“Calling Sara Felder a juggler is a little like referring to Michelangelo as that guy who painted ceilings.”
• Bay Area Reporter

“Felder is a master story-teller and social satirist whose gentle but incisive humor recalls Lily Tomlin or Jerry Seinfeld—if they could juggle.”
• Santa Cruz Sentinel

“There were so many moments of emotional depth laced with humor that one couldn’t begin to tell them all. … After three curtain calls, the audience finally let her go.”
• Eureka Times-Standard

Sara continues to do corporate engagements, tour her juggling act and full-length theater shows, perform on the school and college circuit, and teach comedy and performance. Sara also enjoys playing klezmer clarinet in the family band and playing the ancient game of GO on her post-modern phone. She lives in Oakland, CA with her partner Dev, a rabbi, and their son Jesse, a middle-school filmmaker.