I’m teaching this Musical Improv Workshop at Comedy Bar Danforth February 14th, 2026!

Sarah got into musical improv comedy as a drummer while living in New York City, when she just kept showing up to play at shows because no one told her to stop. She played with the best musical improv groups in town: Baby Wants Candy, Shamilton (with a performance at The Kennedy Center in February 2020!) Your Love Our Musical, and Vern. She’s also played several shows with Offbook the Musical Improv Podcast, including their biggest show yet, right here at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto! After years of backing the best musical improvisers NYC has to offer, she finally took the full curriculum of musical improv classes at Magnet Theater, studying with the legendary Frank Spitznagel, Michael Lutton, Cheryl Horne, and Nikita Burdein. Sarah was a member of NYC’s one and only bluegrass musical improv group, The Wayfaring Strangers, playing bass and being ridiculous with a wonderful group of folks. She additionally trained at Upright Citizens Brigade, Magnet Theater, The Peoples’ Improv Theater, and Brooklyn Comedy Collective in character comedy, sketch writing, and non-musical improv with Jon Bander, Jamie Linn Watson, Pat Swearingen, and Armando Diaz. Sarah also does character bits, which tend to be music related, and debuted her solo character show, “People Playing Drums Good,” at The PIT’s 10th Annual Solocom Festival. 

As Penelope Pumpernickleton- The Pied Paradiddler of Piffletown Pennsylvania at The PIT’s 10th Annual Solocom Festival, NYC 2024.

Photo by Steph Jacobson