Sara Marsh

SARA MARSH is a nationally recognized film, stage, and voiceover artist based in Minneapolis. Marsh is the founding Artistic Director of Dark & Stormy Productions, a professional Actors' Equity theater company named by City Pages as Best Theater in Minnesota (2016). She is an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and North Dakota State University, and offers private acting and career development lessons.

Marsh’s work has been lauded by the Chicago Sun Times, Rolling Stone, LA Times, Variety, NYC WebFest (nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Web Series, “Theater People”), Minnesota Star Tribune, Lavender Magazine, MinnPost, City Pages, the Twin Cities Theater Bloggers (TCTB), and many others.

"Marsh has slayed her varied roles."

"Patrons at a northeast Minneapolis coffee shop gave a wide berth to the raven-haired woman who babbled to herself with a distant look in her eyes on a recent rainy morning.

Not to worry. Actor and theater impresario Sara Marsh was just rehearsing her latest role.

She plays a schizophrenic daughter in "And So It Goes," a dark comedy about the financial, emotional and psychic costs of illness on a family already chastened by crisis. Marsh was rehearsing in the name of efficiency -- she is not only co-star of the show, but also artistic director of Dark & Stormy Productions, which is opening the play this week. Her docket was full, with press interviews to promote the production, grant applications to keep her company afloat, and voice-over work to support her own career.

A 5-foot-3 dynamo who holds an interviewer with her eyes, Marsh has taken the Twin Cities by storm with the company she founded four years ago. Dark & Stormy's noteworthy productions include William Mastrosimone's "Extremities," David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow," and Harold Pinter's "The Hothouse," all staged in unusual spaces where audiences are never more than a few feet from the actors.

The works have garnered strong reviews and put the company's name on the lips of tastemakers. Dark & Stormy recently became a full professional member of the Actors' Equity union, and City Pages just named it the best theater in the Twin Cities.

'Can you think of another person who has started a theater, and within five years made it into the best-of rankings while supplying Equity contracts?' asked Sally Wingert, the Guthrie stalwart who plays Marsh's mother in "And So It Goes."

'The fact that she's in those conversations is a credit to her intensity, focus, and dynamism.'" READ MORE

- Rohan Preston, Star Tribune