sarah underwood saviano
Actor ~ Musician ~ Director
Royal Theatre @ Queen Mary in Long Beach
Quills
The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife
“Particularly impressive is Sarah Underwood Saviano, who is clearly cast as Marjorie’s caustic mother Frieda for a reason. Her embodiment of this unrelentingly blunt woman is both endearing and hilarious."
Alina Mae Wilson
ON WITH THE SHOW: Strident Allergist’s Wife Distracts Audience
Also excellent is Sarah Underwood Saviano, a Cal Rep regular who is totally unrecognizable. Cal Rep audiences are accustomed to seeing her as an attractive performer with long red hair that bounces on her shoulders as she plays her jazz saxophone. In this production, Sarah portrays Frieda — Marjorie’s bitter, foul-mouthed, gray-haired, arthritic mother, who is constantly constipated. She supplies uproarious comedy when Frieda insists on describing her latest bowel movement during dinner.
Siri Von-Essen Strindberg in The Night of the Tribades Directed by Tom Cooke
“Siri (the electrifying Sarah Underwood, veteran of many Cal Rep productions)… It's a tour-de-force performance, with the accent on force.”
Poetry of Pizza
The Kentucky Cycle
The Pool of Bethseda
Edna in Waiting For Lefty: Seeing Red (Directed by Kim Rubinstein)
Pen in Current Nobody
“And then we get to Sarah Underwood’s Pen, who blows onstage with a forcefulness that keeps you hanging on every word of a press conference that is in effect a long monologue (intriguing and amusing) about an even longer absence. And when required, her epic persona fluidly gives way to pained vulnerability.”
Greggory Moore, District Weekly
Elaine in Thugs (directed by Anne D'zmura)
"Sarah Underwood Saviano is as always a remarkable presence in this company, playing Elaine, a woman curiously unaffected by the subtly growing sense of dread until she returns to her desk bloodied and injured. Her sangfroid is violated by the presence of violence right outside the proscribed world of this office."