A fourth-generation Washington DC native, Sarah McCarron spent her youth playing basketball in the alleys of the nation's capital. As politicians orated on Capital Hill, Sarah and her cousins down the street gave free air-guitar concerts of songs by Michael Jackson and the B-52s. Eventually disgruntled and embittered by the volatile music industry, by age 8, Sarah found a new love when she was cast as Starkey the Pirate in her school's production of Peter Pan. She never looked back.

Through the change of administration and the birth of MTV... through the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the USSR... through the neon legwarmers and acid-washed jeans: Sarah's love for performance never wavered.

Sarah eventually received a full academic scholarship to the University of Delaware, where she was able to create her own program of study, drawing from classes offered by the faculty of the prestigious Professional Theatre Training Program. She studied for two semesters in London, and her liberal arts background fostered a deep passion for language, rhetoric, and the classics.

It was while working at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, doing a production of Moliere's Scapin, that Sarah was introduced to Commedia Del Arte and the physical theatre of Jacques Lecoq.

She followed her passion to explore these physical traditions by studying with Thomas Prattki, former head of L'Ecole de Jacques Lecoq in Paris, at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. It was around this time that Prattki set out to open a new training program in London. Sarah was integral in supporting the momentum to create a new Masters Degree Program through Naropa, where American students could be trained in this incredible European approach to movement and theatre. Sarah was in the first graduating class of the London International School of the Performing Arts (LISPA).

After school, Sarah helped to form Centrifugue Ensemble, which was commissioned by the Berbersee Musik and Theatre Festival in Germany to produce and perform a play in collaboration with classical cellist Claudio Bohorquez. In residency in Southern France, the company drew on influences from Lecoq and Roy Hart.

Sarah returned to the US, to work with Pig Iron Theatre Company in the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival's production of PAY UP, which was nominated for a Barrymore Award. Professionally, she has played a wide variety of roles, from a savvy ten-year old to a one-legged maid. She recently received three grants to write a play about death, mischief, and turn-of-the-century Appalachian murder ballads.

Film credits include “Cover”, directed by Bill Duke and staring Louis Gossett Jr, and Aunjanue Ellis, as well as “The Stone House”, directed by John Wattenbarger.

In addition to acting on stage and in film, Sarah teaches performance and writing in affiliation with Very Special Arts, as well as several universities, including the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and the University of Delaware.