Sarah Hinzman was born and raised in Iowa. She recently graduated from Florida State University with an M.F.A. in Directing. She has also earned an M.S. in Adult Learning & Organizational Performance from Drake University and a B.F.A. in Music Theatre with a dance minor from Viterbo University. She further trained with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators (Consent Forward Artist Program) and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (Summer Shakespeare Short Course). She currently teaches at Nebraska Wesleyan University.
Directing credits include Dial M for Murder (Nebraska Wesleyan), Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! The Musical!,The Ruby Sunrise,The Fault/Julius Caesar, Prefers Bright Indirect Light, INK, Inc.; #FREEBRITNEY (Florida State), Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! The Musical!, Dragons Love Tacos (Clinton Showboat), Black Box: An Adoption Story, Again, I’m You, Halloween:1977 (Theatre Cedar Rapids)
Sarah has been a professional actor for 20 years. Some of her favorite roles include Mother in Ragtime, Baker’s Wife in Into the Woods, and Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker. Regional theaters include Timber Lake Playhouse, Riverside Theatre (Iowa City) Blue Gate Theatre, Stagewest Theatre Company, Des Moines Onstage, Epic Stage Productions, Kata Klysmic Productions, SPT Theatre, Old Creamery Theatre, and Allenberry Playhouse. She has also appeared in short films, commercials, and industrials.
Sarah enjoys teaching and coaching students of all ages. In higher education, she has taught acting, musical theatre, directing, movement, voice, script analysis, and more at Nebraska Wesleyan University, Florida State University, and Drake University. For many years, she freelanced as a children’s theatre instructor at the Eastern Iowa Arts Academy, the Zach Johnson Foundation, and more. She provides private coaching in acting, public speaking, and career advancement.
Sarah served in a variety of interesting day jobs including two years of service in AmeriCorps, in which she served as an Environmental Educator at a nature center. She also worked for the Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service as the Training and Inclusion Coordinator and the Iowa Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman as the Volunteer Ombudsman Program Manager. She has certificates in Grant Writing & Management from Drake University and Volunteer Management from Des Moines Area Community College.
To strive. To seek. To find. And not to yield. - Tennyson
