Sarah Bitar is a film and stage actor, poet and vocalist. She grew up in Lebanon, and is fluent in Arabic, French and English.

Since 2020, she has been writing, performing and producing performance pieces and music. Notable work: T(HERE), devised and performed at Cabinet Magazine with Aya Aziz and Waseem Alzer, and WALKING IN NY WITH SPIRITS REBELLIOUS, a solo performance for the United Nations centennial celebration of Gibran Khalil Gibran’s “The Prophet”. She is at work on a spoken word and music album/performance entitled MUKAALAMAAT.

Since 2022, she has been a valued member of the acting ensemble at the Mercury Store, an experimental live performance directors' residency, located in Gowanus. There, she has collaborated with foremost directors and companies: Paul Pinto, Andrew Schneider, Aaron Landsman, Binbin Factory, and many others.

Sarah studied acting at the Stella Adler Studio in NYC and got her BFA in theater at the Lebanese University - Institute of Fine Arts II. She also studied philosophy at Université Saint Joseph in Beirut. She is a self-taught vocalist currently under the tutelage of Iraqi vocalist Zahra Alzubaidi.

She was a recipient of A4’s “What can we do?” grant, NYFA’s City Artist Corps grant, the Indie Theater Fund, and poetry/music composition residency at The Blue Mountain Center. In 2024, she received Best Actress Award for a leading actor in a feature film for Stockade, at the Queens International Film Festival.

(Photo Still from Stockade, Cinematography by Guy de Lancey)