Rate My Professor Amy Sarno

Sarno's key projects include the Beloit Ghost Stories Project (2005), funded by the Wisconsin Arts Board, the Associated Colleges of the Midwest FaCE program, and the Sanger Fund; “Do You See What I’m Saying?” (2007-present), a script devised with members of Beloit’s African American community to reveal untold memories; Surviving (2011), a play created with survivors of domestic violence; Plan B: Love Stories Gone Wrong (2014), an oral history project on family violence developed in Florence, Italy, during her Fulbright U.S. Scholar award in Arts (2013-2014, Italy) and supported by a Mellon Foundation grant for performance at the Crisis Arts Festival in Arezzo; Mediated Women (2014); Insider/Outsider (2015); The Forgiveness Project (2017), a verbatim theatre piece on the Chicago criminal justice system in collaboration with Erasing the Distance; The Holidays Unwrapped (2017); and A Peace of Cookie (2025). She teaches courses including Contemporary Theories of Performance and Media, Acting, Devising, Documentary Theatre, and Taking Action. Her publications comprise "Acting Access" co-authored with Robert Barton in Theatre Topics 6:1 (1996): 1-14; "DAH Theatre’s Angels: Doubling the Directions of Community-based Memory" in Dah Theatre: A Sourcebook, edited by Dennis Barnett (Rowman and Littlefield); and a review of Tactical Performance: The Theory and Practice of Serious Play in Theatre Survey 58:2 (2017): 36. Sarno’s work fosters rigorous dialogue and creative potential in students while contributing to theatre's role in social change through international and local collaborations.