About

Call me Sarah Zucker. I am an MFA student in Dramatic Writing at NYU: Tisch, and a Member of the Dramatists Guild of America. I am a writer and a photographer, sometimes a visual artist, sometimes a filmmaker, often an actress, and always living way past my means (I'm counting on older Sarah to be able to make up for it).

If you've visited my previous site, you are probably expecting some long and detailed false biography about my life as a sordid hedonist and Bright Young Person of the 1920s. I hate to inform you, but I've really come to terms with myself as my Self in the past year, so I'm trying to be less dissimulative in my life (even tongue-in-cheek dissimulation).

For my new About section, I thought about writing a bio in the third person to make myself sound important (and to make my accomplishments sound more objectively awesome). But this isn't a resume, and I'm not trying that hard to impress you (I want to impress you, but I don't want to try that hard). So, the whole bland objective narrative of my life thing isn't gonna happen either.

I think, for the sake of knowledge, I may actually tell you some things about myself. I'm a little too close to my own life to give a good narrative (should I say, a true narrative), so instead I am going to interview myself, and let you know what I find out.

Name: Sarah E. Zucker (The E stands for Elizabeth. But I'm considering something snappier, like Elvira. or Electra. Or Edamame)

Age: Born and raised in the 1980s. I am old enough to drink. Not old enough to rent a car.

Hometown: Canton, OH

That eternal question, What do you want to do with your life: Truthfully, I want to keep doing what I do now. Write, Act, Create. Only hopefully one day I'll get paid crock shits of cash for it. Oh, and also figure out our collective generational purpose. And write the Great American Epic. Or the Great American Play. Or the Great American Novel. Hopefully just something Great (and inevitably American). Oh, also invent a better mousetrap. And non-stick peanut butter. Also, considering a brief interlude as a nonsense poet and muckraker of the nth degree.

Though I think someone should be defined by who they are and not necessarily what they like, here's a little insight into my interests.

Favorite Authors: Evelyn Waugh, Kurt Vonnegut, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Margaret Atwood, Alain de Botton, Iris Murdoch, Jane Austen, Dorothy Parker, Nancy Mitford, Wendy Wasserstein, Edward Lear, Susan Sontag, Proust, Voltaire, Noel Coward

Favorite Poets: John Updike, Allen Ginsberg, Sharon Olds, Atwood again, Sylvia Plath, Auden, G.M. Hopkins, Baudelaire, Rilke, Shakespeare, Elizabeth Bishop

Favorite Artists: Titian, Caravaggio, John Singer Sargent, Matthias Grünewald, El Greco, Francisco Goya, Parmigianino, Jan Van Eyck, Rembrandt, Georges De La Tour, Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun, Ecstasy of St. Theresa by Bernini, Albrecht Dürer, Ingres, Gustave Doré, Caillebotte, Late Matisse, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, Warhol, Winsor McCay, Diane Arbus, Peter Max, Ed Paschke, Ivan Albright, Vito Acconci, Dale Chihuly, Cindy Sherman, Fuseli, Dali, William Blake, Angus McBean, John Kricafalusi, Otto Dix, Oskar Kokoschka, Nan Goldin,

Favorite Plays: The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein, Uncommon Women and Others by Wendy Wasserstein, The Sisters Rosensweig by Wendy Wasserstein, Angels in America by Tony Kushner, Candida by G.B. Shaw, Man and Superman by G.B. Shaw, You Never Can Tell by G.B. Shaw, Hay Fever by Noel Coward, Private Lives by Noel Coward, Design for Living by Noel Coward, Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov, The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen, Proof by David Auburn, The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde, Medea by Euripides, Ah Wilderness! By Eugene O'Neill, What the Butler Saw By Joe Orton, Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage, August: Osage County by Tracy Letts, No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre, The Flies by Jean-Paul Sartre, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh

Favorite Music: Talking Heads, Radiohead, Ben Folds, Billy Joel, Dan Bern, The Decemberists, David Bowie, The Velvet Underground, Wilco, Nellie McKay, The Mountain Goats, Chuck Coleman, The White Stripes, Iron & Wine, Sufjan Stevens, Cat Stevens, Yes, Beck, Nico, Rufus Wainwright, Regina Spektor, The Kinks, The Smiths, Nick Drake, The Cure, Old Crow Medicine Show, Philip Glass, Fleet Foxes, Girl Talk, Liza Minnelli, The Magnetic Fields, Serge Gainsbourg, They Might be Giants, Vampire Weekend, Kiki & Herb, Patti Smith

Favorite Movies: Belle de Jour, Annie Hall, Jules et Jim, Day for Night, Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, the Last Metro, Love and Death, Play it Again Sam, Eight Women, Harold and Maude, Bridget Jones' Diary, When Harry Met Sally, Sense and Sensibility, Les Enfants Terribles, Waiting for Guffman, Merci Docteur Rey, Lady and the Tramp, I Heart Huckabees, Angels in America, Fried Green Tomatoes, All About Eve, The Muppet Movie, Bright Young Things, Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion, Beaches, Mommie Dearest, Outrageous Fortune, Heathers, Remains of the Day, Stardust Memories, Hannah and her Sisters, The Phantom Tollbooth, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, Casablanca, Pasolini's Medea, Dogville, Network, Eve's Bayou, Monsoon Wedding, Orlando, Withnail & I, Cabaret, High Art

Favorite TV Shows: Absolutely Fabulous, Six Feet Under, Clarissa Explains it All, Coupling, My So-Called Life, Cybill, The Soup, Wonder Showzen, Arrested Development, Weeds, Mystery Science Theater 3000, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, French and Saunders, Planet Earth, Beautiful People, Dead Like Me, Dexter, Beautiful People, Big Love

Things that annoy me: Being solicited by people on the street, Mouthbreathers, salad dressing, People who do volunteer work to make themselves look good (most people, myself included), when my mother calls me 18 times during class because I don't answer my phone, theater politics, when my hair refuses to lie flat, finding out a roll of film wasn't loaded correctly and none of it was exposed, my own midwestern accent, everyone else's midwestern accents, driving in Evanston, doing dishes, being patronized, Powerpoint, Microsoft in general, pissing contests, 99.8% of the people involved in the Arts (the other .2% are the reason to stay there), Mormon Missionaries in Wash Sq. Park, Impudent taxis that try to solicit you, Fishy street smells in the morning,

Things that excite me: The internet, rice cookers, antique photography, plastic cameras, paintings found at thrift stores, costume jewelry, playing dress-up, Katamari (the only video game I play), the beach late at night, Indian food, StumbleUpon, Boggle, The Christmas EL, Martha Stewart's Hors d'Oeuvres Handbook, Neon colors, mirrors, weiner dogs, found footage films, Jeopardy, poetic recitations, sexdrugsrock'nroll, sculpey clay, collages, gallons upon gallons of fresh-ground black coffee, Fonts and typesettings, Food Network, the premium people/professors in my writing program, my Fram (Friend-Family), pendant watches, revolutionary costumes for the day, wigs, East Village Community gardens, Fat Baby, drag queens, Yendy, black and white cookies, Lake Michigan, Mac computers, you can never have too many hats, gloves, or shoes.