Sally Seitz
Sally Seitz is a writer-director for the screen and stage originally from Nashville, Tennessee, though she just spent the last six years calling Austin, Texas home. As a writer, Sally’s stories are rooted in an exploration of place and the complexity of emotions we have for the communities that shape us. Her work often straddles the line of comedy and tragedy while revealing her fascination with myth, magic, fable, and folklore. Her plays and monologues have been produced and/or commissioned by Project Y Theatre’s Women in Theatre (WIT) Festival, New Manifest Theatre Company, ScriptWorks, 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 (playwright & director) and her one-woman show Soldier of the Cross (playwright & director) were selected for Hyde Park Theatre and ScriptWorks’ 2020 and 2019 FronteraFest’s ‘Best of Fest’ showcases. 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 currently as the script writer for AFF’s On Story TV/radio show and podcast. Sally holds a B.A in Theatre and American Literature from Middlebury College, and she is currently pursuing her MFA in Dramatic Writing at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama, where she was the first place winner of the 2023 Alfred P. Sloan Script Competition with her screenplay Too Many Fish in the Sea.