Interview by David-Edward Hughes in Seattle Gay Scene

Born in Alexandria, Virginia, and raised on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, Sarah Rudinoff, a self-described “half-Episcopalian, half-Jew” has lived and worked in a number of North American cities. She has appeared in Negative Space and Richard Foreman’s Ontological Hysteric in New York City and in several new plays at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. For a number of years she has been based in Seattle.

Sarah she has appeared in many of Seattle’s professional theaters including starring as Ruth in Wonderful Town and Hildy in On the Town at the 5th Avenue Theatre., as Yitzhak in the original Seattle production Hedwig and the Angry Inch and in her solo shows Broad Perspective (1998), Go There (2003) and in The Last State (2004), a piece about growing up haole (Caucasian) in Hawaii.

I had the pleasure of directing her in a well-received concert version of It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane, It’s Superman, where she managed to top Linda Lavin’s Broadway performance as the over-sexed Sydney. We have stayed pals and I am pleased to share with you our chat about her life, career and latest role as Smitty, the BFF of another Sarah, leading lady Sarah Rose Davis in the 5th Avenue’s How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, directed by the 5th’s Bill Berry,  and opening Thursday, February 4, 2016.