Sarah Swift is a Meisner-trained actor and writer, originally from Toronto, Ontario. She is a proud graduate of the William Esper Studio in New York City where she studied under the renowned Bill Esper.

Sarah has appeared Off-Broadway, in films & television, and inhabited some of Shakespeare’s luminous leading ladies, such as Titania, Olivia, and Desdemona. She played Mrs. Kavanaugh opposite Matt Damon in the viral Cold Open sketch on Saturday Night Live, which to date has received over 32 million views on YouTube. Recent projects include the film, “Bad Fences,” in which she plays an unhinged woman pushed to her mental limits by a nosy neighbor; the think-piece thriller, “Love in a Bottle,” and the CBS drama, “FBI” (dir. Joanna Kerns).

In her spare time, Sarah is an avid researcher of history and genealogy, and has even been published in the Journal of the American Revolution. For information on hiring Sarah for ancestry purposes, please click here.

Sarah is based in Manhattan, NYC. Keep scrolling for performance media and materials.