Sally Seitz is writer-director for the stage and screen originally from Nashville, Tennessee though she just spent the last six years calling Austin,Texas home. As a writer, she is driven by the paradox of place, seeking to explore the complexity of emotions we have for the communities that shape us. Sally’s plays walk the line of comedy and tragedy and reveal her fascination with myth, magic, fable, and folklore. Her plays and monologues have been produced by Project Y Theatre’s Women in Theatre (WIT) Festival, New Manifest Theatre Company, and at Ensworth High School as a culmination of her work as a visiting teaching artist. Her short play, Please Do Not Touch the Art was an official Scriptworks commission for the 2020 FronteraFest Fringe festival. Both Please Do Not Touch the Art (playwright and director) and Sally’s one-woman show, Soldier of the Cross (playwright and director) were selected for Hyde Park Theatre and Scriptworks’ 2020 and 2019 FronteraFest’s ‘Best of Fest’ showcases.
Sally is currently pursuing her MFA in Dramatic Writing at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama.
Sally Seitz is an emerging TV writer, screenwriter, playwright, and director originally from Nashville,
Tennessee, though she spent seven years calling Austin, Texas home. Often, her scripts depict modern southern women and have been described as “if Flannery O’Connor was on a dating app.”
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Currently, Seitz is commissioned by 20th Television (formerly ABC Signature) to adapt her stage play,
SIX INCHES ABOVE THE KNEE into a dark-comedy TV series as part of her first-place selection for the
studio’s inaugural Emerging Playwrights Initiative. This opportunity includes invaluable mentorship from writer Raamla Mohamed (Creator REASONABLE DOUBT, Writer/Executive Producer LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE) in preparation to pitch the pilot for series development.
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Seitz’s rom com screenplay, TOO MANY FISH IN THE SEA, was the first-place winner of CMU’s 2023 Alfred P. Sloan Script Competition ($25,000 award), a Semifinalist for Humanitas’s 2024 David & Lynn Angell College Comedy Award, and a quarterfinalist in Final Draft’s 2023 Big Break.
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Sally’s play SIX INCHES ABOVE THE KNEE is nominated for the 2025 L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award. Her one-act, THE MONUMENT MAKER was selected by The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival as a 2024 John Cauble Regional finalist. Her plays and monologues have been produced, commissioned, or workshopped by Carnegie Mellon University's Fall New Works Reading Series, Project Y Theatre’s Women in Theatre (WIT) Festival, New Manifest Theatre Company, ScriptWorks, KCACTF, and The Ensworth School as a culmination of her work as a visiting artist.
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Seitz has taught Dramatic Writing at Carnegie Mellon University and La Roche University. For seven years and counting, Sally has been a part of the Austin Film Festival team. Seitz holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama and is a member of WGA East and the Dramatist Guild of America.
​She is currently seeking management and short film post-production collaborators.