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Welcome to blue like smoke, the online theater and design portfolio for Sara Holdren.


Sara Holdren is a theater-maker (director, actor, designer, and collaborative artist) and graphic designer currently located in Charlottesville, Virginia. She graduated magna cum laude from Yale University with a B.A. in Theater Studies. At Yale she performed with the Control Group Experimental Theater Ensemble (Artistic Director 2005-2006), directed four full productions, acted in thirteen, designed for seven, and was a two-time winner of the Lohmann Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Printing and Design. She worked as an intern in the Marketing & Design department of the Yale University Press (references available) and was featured in the Yale Daily News for her work in theater. She also co-founded and performed for three years with Red Umbrella Theatre Company, appearing in their productions of The Winter's Tale and Romeo & Juliet. She is a graduate of the Acting Shakespeare program at RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) in London, and she hopes in the future to found a theater company with a combined focus on Shakespeare and physical theater.

Sara is currently working as a freelance graphic designer and would love to talk to you about any projects you have in mind, from posters to t-shirts to art prints and artist's books. Please email her at allforhecuba@gmail.com with questions, comments, or commissions!

Likewise, if you're interested in working with Sara on a theater project, please contact her via email. Her resume is available here, along with a portfolio of her past productions. She's always on the lookout for exciting new performance ventures!

Curious about more than you see here? Contact Sara with any questions, comments, circuitous ramblings, or epic poetry.



This website takes its name Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead:
Ros: We'll be cold. The summer won't last.
Guil: It's autumnal.
Ros: No leaves.
Guil: Autumnal -- nothing to do with leaves. It is to do with a certain brownness at the edges of the day. . . . Brown is creeping up on us, take my word for it. . . . Russets and tangerine shades of old gold flushing the very outside edge of the senses . . . deep shining ochres, burnt umber and parchments of baked earth -- reflecting on itself and through itself, filtering the light. At such times, perhaps, coincidentally, the leaves might fall, somewhere, by repute. Yesterday was blue, like smoke.


blue like smoke is copyright (C) by sara holdren, 2008