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Sarah Rutan*

Hero in Much Ado about Nothing,
Libby Michaels in Paradise Lost Understudy: Clarice and Ensemble in The Servant of Two Masters

In six seasons at OSF: Valeria in Coriolanus, Desdemona in Othello, Phebe in As You Like It, Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew, Margot Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank, Silvia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Teresa in Napoli Milionaria!, Envy, Old Woman and Ensemble in The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Katherine in Love's Labour's Lost, Margery Jourdain and Ensemble in Henry VI, Parts Two & Three, Margaret in Much Ado about Nothing, Ensemble in Romeo and Juliet, Rose in Wild Oats.

Other theatres: Julia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Miranda in The Tempest, Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew, Aunt Dorothy in Prelude to a Kiss (Idaho Repertory Theatre); Caliban in The Tempest, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth (Montana Shakespeare Company); Sylvia in Sylvia (Grandstreet Theatre).

Awards: 2003 Rex Rabold Fellow.

Education: BFA, University of Idaho.

* member of Actors' Equity Association

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Full time: 325
Part time: 175
Average length of service: 8 years
Volunteers: 600

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