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Sara Gaston is an award-winning actor, director, writer, and producer.  She has been acting for over 30 years and has worked in almost all areas of the business including film, television, improv, sketch comedy, commercials, industrial, animation, stage, and voice-over. She has appeared in many independent films including the award-winning productions “Lars the Emo Kid”, “Acid Test”, and “The Lioness Club”.  Several of the films she has appeared in have won awards at various film festivals, including most recently “Taste of a Memory”. 

She took her sold-out, one-woman show “Red Hot Patriot – The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins” to California, courtesy of Main Street Theater & California State University.  She received a B.A. in Drama from the University of Texas at Austin. She has continued her studies with The Groundlings, Jeff Perry (Steppenwolf Theater), Second City, The Margie Haber Studio, Leslie Kahn, Kim Rubenstein, and Guy Roberts (Artistic Director of the Prague Shakespeare Festival).

She directed the award-winning “I Was Gone for Awhile” which has had a very powerful festival run and opened up the conversation around sexual predation.  Her follow-up, “Coyote”, is now entering the film festival circuit.  She is currently in preproduction for “Widow’s Thirds”, which she will write, direct, produce, and star in. This past fall, she directed the comedy web series, “Trophies”.  She also has a bunny named Kevin, who pretty much bosses her around.