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 a writer-director for the screen and stage. She is originally from Nashville, Tennessee, though she spent seven years calling Austin, Texas home. Often, her scripts use humor and heartbreak to depict modern southern women and have been described as “if Flannery O’Connor was on a dating app.”
Her rom com screenplay, Too Many Fish in the Sea was the first place winner of CMU’s 2023 Alfred P. Sloan Script Competition and a quarter-finalist in Final Draft’s Big Break. Learn more HERE!
Her plays and monologues have been produced, commissioned and/or workshopped by 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 teaching artist.
Last fall, Sally co-developed and instructed “Harvesting Personal Narratives: A Dramatic Writing Workshop” with cohort member Robin Goldberg. Later this spring, Sally will script supervise on set of her dark-comedy short-film Just Out of Reach directed by CMU MFA candidate Tatiana Baccari, and present the thesis reading of her stage play Six Inches Above the Knee.
During her time at CMU, Sally directed the short plays Jazz Band by Christine Swenson and Bu-Ble-Gum, Bu-Ble-Gum by Kandace James.
For six years and counting, Sally has been a part of the Austin Film Festival team, working as the Young Filmmakers Program Director, Grants and Copywriter, and as the script writer for AFF’s On Story TV/radio show and podcast
Most recently, Sally was nominated for ABC Signature's 2024 Emerging Playwrights Initiative!
