Sara Barker (she/her) serves as the artistic director of Arlington’s Avant Bard Theatre and is an acting company member with Rorschach Theatre in Washington, DC. She also serves as the arts & culture commissioner on the Arlington Economic Development Commission and a co-president of Embracing Arlington Arts. Sara holds a BA in philosophy and the history of mathematics from St. John’s College in Annapolis and is a cybersecurity editor for the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in Arlington. She resides in Arlington with her husband, a Yorktown High School teacher, and their two children who attend Ashlawn Elementary and Kenmore Middle School. Sara is a trained discussion leader with the Touchstones Discussion Project (https://touchstones.org/) for which she regularly volunteers.
As a DC-area stage actor, Sara’s credits include Suddenly Last Summer, King Lear, Emilie, Orlando, Othello, Lulu, A Misanthrope, Mary Stuart. Other DC-area credits: A Maze, This Storm is What We Call Progress (Rorschach), 4.48 Psychosis (Factory 449), The Importance of Being Earnest, A Woman of No Importance (Scena), and The Cherry Orchard (Faction of Fools). New York credits include Lear DeBessonet’s Death Might Be Your Santa Claus and Josh Fox’s Limitless Joy.