Sarah Mantell is the recipient of the 2023 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot (Playwrights Horizons). Their other plays include Everything That Never Happened (Baltimore Center Stage, Boston Court Pasadena, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Folger), The Good Guys (Second Stage), Tiny (Seven Devils), and Fight Call (Artists Rep, Breaking the Binary). Mantell has been awarded residencies with MacDowell, Yaddo, Wildacres, Hedgebrook, Fresh Ground Pepper, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and SPACE on Ryder Farm, as well as a Toulmin grant, an Edgerton Foundation grant, and a Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship. Mantell has taught at Wesleyan University, Purchase College, Occidental College, University of Vermont, and New Haven's Cooperative Arts High School. They hold a B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design and a M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama.
While in residence, in Mantell has worked on The Good Guys and In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot.
