Sara Graefe (she/they) is a playwright, screenwriter, dramaturg, story editor and essayist. She is a three-time winner of the National Arts Centre (NAC) Young Playwrights Search and her early play Sadly As I Tie My Shoes premiered to critical acclaim at the NAC Atelier in Ottawa. Other plays include Scribbles, Dreamspyre (Honourable Mention, Jane Chambers Playwriting Award) and Yellow on Thursdays. Her current work-in-progress, Courage, developed in collaboration with Vancouver dramaturg Joanna Garfinkel and at Banff Playwrights Lab with Montreal dramaturg Emma Tibaldo, is an anti-war play exploring intergenerational impacts of migration and flight.

Sara was a screenwriter-in-residence at the Canadian Film Centre. She has worked for many years in the BC film industry, including five seasons in the writing room of Edgemont, CBC-TV’s Gemini and Leo award-winning teen series, and over a decade on the story editing team for the Crazy8s short film challenge. She also writes creative nonfiction and is the editor of Swelling with Pride: Queer Conception and Adoption Stories (Dagger Editions/Caitlin Press), selected for the American Library Association’s 2020 Over the Rainbow Nonfiction Longlist.