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| disciplines  = Musical theatre actress · Singer · Dancer
| disciplines  = Musical theatre actress · Singer · Dancer
| based_in      = South Florida
| based_in      = South Florida
| education    = School in Deerfield Beach, Florida<br />Boca Raton Community High School (2023)
| education    = School in Deerfield Beach, Florida<br />Boca Raton Community High School (2023)<br />Coastal Carolina University
| degree        = <!-- college and degree not yet known: add when sourced -->
| degree        = Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in Musical Theatre, Coastal Carolina University (expected 2028)
| training      = [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]]; [[Taylor Made Dance & Theatre]]
| training      = [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]]; [[Taylor Made Dance & Theatre]] (from 2020); voice with Michael Soper
| years_active  = c. 2018–present
| years_active  = c. 2018–present
| notable_roles = Alyssa Greene (''The Prom'', Slow Burn Theatre Company, 2024)<br />Dolly Levi (''Hello, Dolly!'', 2023)<br />The Drowsy Chaperone (''The Drowsy Chaperone'', 2022)<br />Heather Chandler (''Heathers'', 2019)
| notable_roles = Alyssa Greene (''The Prom'', Slow Burn Theatre Company, 2024)<br />Dolly Levi (''Hello, Dolly!'', 2023)<br />The Drowsy Chaperone (''The Drowsy Chaperone'', 2022)<br />Heather Chandler (''Heathers'', 2019)
| companies    = Slow Burn Theatre Company
| companies    = Slow Burn Theatre Company
| awards        = Future Stars, best vocalist (2019)<br />Dream Awards nominee (2023)
| awards        = Future Stars, best vocalist (2019)<br />Outstanding Musical Theater award, Boca Raton Community High School (2023, shared)<br />Dream Awards nominee (2023)
| website      = [https://slowburntheatre.org/blog/cast-member/sarah-lash/ Slow Burn Theatre cast page]
| website      = [https://slowburntheatre.org/blog/cast-member/sarah-lash/ Slow Burn Theatre cast page]
}}
}}
'''Sarah Lash''' is an American musical theatre actress and singer from South Florida. She trained and performed at [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]] in Boca Raton, where she played Heather Chandler in ''Heathers'' (2019). She went on to play Alyssa Greene in Slow Burn Theatre Company's production of ''The Prom'' at the Broward Center (2024).<ref name="heathers">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/?p=376 |title="Heathers": Off-Broadway at Its Very Best in Downtown Boca |author=David de Hilster |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2019-12-24}}</ref><ref name="ftos">{{cite web |url=https://www.floridatheateronstage.com/?p=36997 |title=Everyone, come to Slow Burn's The Prom |author=Oline H. Cogdill |website=Florida Theater On Stage |date=2024-03-27}}</ref>
'''Sarah Lash''' is an American musical theatre actress and singer from South Florida. She trained and performed at [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]] in Boca Raton, where she played Heather Chandler in ''Heathers'' (2019). She went on to play Alyssa Greene in Slow Burn Theatre Company's production of ''The Prom'' at the Broward Center (2024).<ref name="heathers">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/?p=376 |title="Heathers": Off-Broadway at Its Very Best in Downtown Boca |author=David de Hilster |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2019-12-24}}</ref><ref name="ftos">{{cite web |url=https://www.floridatheateronstage.com/?p=36997 |title=Everyone, come to Slow Burn's The Prom |author=Oline H. Cogdill |website=Florida Theater On Stage |date=2024-03-27}}</ref>


== Early life and education ==
== Education ==
Lash went to school in Deerfield Beach, Florida, and then to Boca Raton Community High School, where she graduated in 2023. Outside school she performed at [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]] and trained at [[Taylor Made Dance & Theatre]]. In 2022 she was one of Taylor Made's senior studio captains, helping with the studio's day-to-day running, marketing and planning.<ref name="dot">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/luanda-wins-taylor-made-scholarship-named-head-studio-captain/ |title=Luanda Wins Taylor Made Scholarship & Named Head Studio Captain |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2022-05-30}}</ref>
* School in '''Deerfield Beach''', Florida
* '''Boca Raton Community High School''', Boca Raton, Florida (graduated May 2023)
* '''Coastal Carolina University''', Conway, South Carolina: '''Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre''' (expected 2028)
 
=== Training ===
* [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]], Boca Raton: member of '''ShowStoppers''', Showtime's auditioned Broadway performance troupe
* [[Taylor Made Dance & Theatre]], Boca Raton, under [[Angela Morando-Taylor]]: from June 2020; senior studio captain (2022)
* Voice: student of Michael Soper (Michael Soper Music)
 
Lash went to school in Deerfield Beach, Florida, and then to Boca Raton Community High School, where she graduated in May 2023. She also sang in the school's chorus.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/luanda.dehilster/posts/pfbid0FWZq6E8eAjjrPam6eHvqwezcSjMbYNCRzmrToZ7XEbeXNNLnufpkjdPLZ5KCmsBYl |title=Boca High fall chorus concert |website=Facebook |date=2021-11-12}}</ref> At the senior awards she shared the school's Outstanding Musical Theater award with [[Luanda de Hilster]] and Emma Maass, and the three also received theater excellence awards at the senior drama banquet.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/luanda.dehilster/posts/pfbid02JhgDUXWUKkWbGbQvGhhjqo8PmnJh1dtytZFjwESS52ejrkGxpHdU56pRpBQq3eNhl |title=Senior awards |website=Facebook |date=2023-04-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/luanda.dehilster/posts/pfbid071hd4MNebaChEUEL8aycMYJVwHovQnxXZEAgjBbixSGMwiiEFzTwdtLGFNnq1hPol |title=Senior drama banquet |website=Facebook |date=2023-05-11}}</ref> Outside school she performed at [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]] and trained at [[Taylor Made Dance & Theatre]]. She is studying musical theatre at Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina, in the class of 2028, working towards the university's audition-only B.F.A. in Musical Theatre.<ref name="ig">{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/sarahlashh/ |title=Sarah Lash (@sarahlashh) |website=Instagram |access-date=2026-11-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.coastal.edu/theatre/programs/bfa-musicaltheatreconcentration/ |title=B.F.A. – Musical Theatre Concentration |website=Coastal Carolina University}}</ref>
 
She began training at Taylor Made in June 2020, with the summer intensives at the studio's new Boca Raton location.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/luanda.dehilster/posts/pfbid0368NSCerFQ8tiaKEKBtu6jBjr4zfLFLQtxuQZ57QaRNGGG3v7Zv4JpgJBAKBUJx6bl |title=Taylor Made summer intensives |website=Facebook |date=2020-06-08}}</ref> In 2022 she was one of Taylor Made's senior studio captains, helping with the studio's day-to-day running, marketing and planning.<ref name="dot">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/luanda-wins-taylor-made-scholarship-named-head-studio-captain/ |title=Luanda Wins Taylor Made Scholarship & Named Head Studio Captain |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2022-05-30}}</ref> That year she also took a dance workshop with the Broadway performer Charlotte d'Amboise at the Straz Center in Tampa.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/luanda.dehilster/posts/pfbid02sgATiQne6QSC25c8vAu7byEaVvk1xMDstTHktTZxhXJZkxTDj9iKupgN6tom5ms6l |title=Workshop with Charlotte d'Amboise |website=Facebook |date=2022-03-18}}</ref> Taylor Made prepared her, de Hilster and Emma Maass for the College Audition Project (CAP) auditions in Atlanta in November 2022.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/luanda.dehilster/posts/pfbid02rx1TxBTdjyBBRnmHj2dYj8hi1oK15z2NgXnjqFKgiXFazX3sPDTmVpkokoLVbbokl |title=CAP auditions in Atlanta |website=Facebook |date=2022-11-08}}</ref>


== Career ==
== Career ==
=== Showtime Performing Arts Theatre ===
=== Showtime Performing Arts Theatre ===
Lash was a regular performer at Showtime in downtown Boca Raton. While still in middle school she joined the teen and adult cast of ''Rent'' (March 30 – April 14, 2019). A reviewer wrote that her improvised solo in "Seasons of Love" "garnered applause each and every night where the audience interrupted the song in mid sing when Lash hit her high 'whistle note'".<ref name="rent">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/?p=340 |title=Luanda Thrives in First All Adult Cast |author=David de Hilster |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2018-10-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JdW95XqiaE |title=Seasons of Love by the cast from Rent |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-06-05}}</ref> That year she won best vocalist at the Future Stars competition in Boca Raton, singing "In My Dreams" from ''Anastasia''.<ref name="rent" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_D58_uMuCM |title=Sarah Lash Wins in Future Stars 2019 with "In My Dreams" from Anastasia |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-06-05}}</ref>
Lash was a regular performer at Showtime in downtown Boca Raton. While still in middle school she joined the teen and adult cast of ''Rent'' (March 30 – April 14, 2019). A reviewer wrote that her improvised solo in "Seasons of Love" "garnered applause each and every night where the audience interrupted the song in mid sing when Lash hit her high 'whistle note'".<ref name="rent">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/?p=340 |title=Luanda Thrives in First All Adult Cast |author=David de Hilster |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2018-10-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JdW95XqiaE |title=Seasons of Love by the cast from Rent |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-06-05}}</ref> That year she won best vocalist at the Future Stars competition in Boca Raton, singing "In My Dreams" from ''Anastasia''.<ref name="rent" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_D58_uMuCM |title=Sarah Lash Wins in Future Stars 2019 with "In My Dreams" from Anastasia |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-06-05}}</ref>
She was a member of '''ShowStoppers''', Showtime's auditioned "triple threat" Broadway performance troupe for middle and high school students, along with [[Luanda de Hilster]].<ref name="ss">{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529043103/https://www.showtimeboca.com/ |title=ShowStoppers Broadway Troupe |website=Showtime Performing Arts Theatre (archived) |access-date=2026-11-07}}</ref>
In May 2019 she appeared in Showtime's production of ''The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMpzLDGmxKw |title=The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - May 2019 - Showtime Performing Arts Theatre |website=YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre) |date=2019-10-13}}</ref>


In December 2019 she played the lead Heather, Heather Chandler, in Showtime's ''Heathers''. [[Luanda de Hilster]] played Heather McNamara and Carmela Nussbaum played Heather Duke. The reviewer wrote: "Lash's condescension is impeccable and her voice acting is spot on routinely going from quiet hate, to screaming out commands to the other Heathers."<ref name="heathers" />
In December 2019 she played the lead Heather, Heather Chandler, in Showtime's ''Heathers''. [[Luanda de Hilster]] played Heather McNamara and Carmela Nussbaum played Heather Duke. The reviewer wrote: "Lash's condescension is impeccable and her voice acting is spot on routinely going from quiet hate, to screaming out commands to the other Heathers."<ref name="heathers" />
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=== Boca Raton High School ===
=== Boca Raton High School ===
At Boca Raton Community High School, Lash played the title role in ''The Drowsy Chaperone'' (2022), opposite Eryk Dewire as Adolfo. A reviewer called her portrayal of "the drunken, frustrated Chaperone … a tour-de-force acting performance embellished with her angelic award-winning voice".<ref name="drowsy">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/?p=1525 |title=Back Home |author=David de Hilster |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2022-04-17}}</ref> As a senior she played the lead, Dolly Levi, in ''Hello, Dolly!'' (2023), and was nominated for a 2023 Dream Award, the Palm Beach County high school musical theatre awards.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/?p=1920 |title=Luanda Earns Dream Awards Nomination for a Second Year |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2023-05-10}}</ref>
At Boca Raton Community High School, Lash played the title role in ''The Drowsy Chaperone'' (2022), opposite Eryk Dewire as Adolfo. A reviewer called her portrayal of "the drunken, frustrated Chaperone … a tour-de-force acting performance embellished with her angelic award-winning voice".<ref name="drowsy">{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/?p=1525 |title=Back Home |author=David de Hilster |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2022-04-17}}</ref> As a senior she played the lead, Dolly Levi, in ''Hello, Dolly!'' (2023), and was nominated for a 2023 Dream Award, the Palm Beach County high school musical theatre awards.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://luanda.dehilster.com/?p=1920 |title=Luanda Earns Dream Awards Nomination for a Second Year |website=luanda.dehilster.com |date=2023-05-10}}</ref>
=== Concerts ===
On December 18, 2021, as a student of the voice teacher Michael Soper, she sang "In My Dreams" from ''Anastasia'' at Carnegie Hall in New York. Afterwards she wrote: "New York was a dream."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/mikesopermusic/posts/pfbid02krH4UyWibH69qVc5t3nZxZeLVZjTQ3VxdRV8cZKrBBAzkxmCMAWaw2a8Mj5GDqn2l |title=Carnegie Hall, December 18, 2021 |website=Facebook (Michael Soper Music) |date=2021-12-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CYHtbCYJOcu/ |title=New York was a dream |website=Instagram (@sarahlashh) |date=2021-12-30}}</ref> On July 29, 2023 she performed in a "Broadway Extensive" show at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/luanda.dehilster/posts/pfbid01NcjZMwe8c6EW3geHZ7SBse3HKgC9B7YQEnXmDL6gryhYHECY11e2zRtQU3PBSNVl |title=Broadway Extensive at the Kravis Center |website=Facebook |date=2023-07-29}}</ref>


=== Slow Burn Theatre Company ===
=== Slow Burn Theatre Company ===
In spring 2024 Lash played Alyssa Greene in Slow Burn Theatre Company's ''The Prom'', directed by Patrick Fitzwater, at the Amaturo Theater in the Broward Center for the Performing Arts (March 23 – April 7). Regina Brown played Emma Nolan, Alyssa's girlfriend, and [[Shelley Keelor]] played Alyssa's mother, Mrs. Greene.<ref name="ftos" /><ref name="sft">{{cite web |url=https://southfloridatheater.com/2024/04/02/will-you-go-to-the-prom-with-me/ |title=Will You Go to 'The Prom' With Me? |author=Christopher McDaniel |website=South Florida Theater |date=2024-04-02}}</ref> ''Florida Theater On Stage'' called her "the lovely-voiced Sarah Lash", and wrote that she "shines in her angst-ridden song 'Alyssa Greene,' about the pressure her controlling mother puts on her".<ref name="ftos" /> Slow Burn lists her among its cast members.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://slowburntheatre.org/blog/cast-member/sarah-lash/ |title=Sarah Lash |website=Slow Burn Theatre Company}}</ref>
In spring 2024 Lash played Alyssa Greene in Slow Burn Theatre Company's ''The Prom'', directed by Patrick Fitzwater, at the Amaturo Theater in the Broward Center for the Performing Arts (March 23 – April 7). Regina Brown played Emma Nolan, Alyssa's girlfriend, and [[Shelley Keelor]] played Alyssa's mother, Mrs. Greene.<ref name="ftos" /><ref name="sft">{{cite web |url=https://southfloridatheater.com/2024/04/02/will-you-go-to-the-prom-with-me/ |title=Will You Go to 'The Prom' With Me? |author=Christopher McDaniel |website=South Florida Theater |date=2024-04-02}}</ref> ''Florida Theater On Stage'' called her "the lovely-voiced Sarah Lash", and wrote that she "shines in her angst-ridden song 'Alyssa Greene,' about the pressure her controlling mother puts on her".<ref name="ftos" /> It was her first professional show. Afterwards she wrote: "We built a prom! My first professional show will forever be one for the books!", with "a special thank you to Patrick for helping me live my dream".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/C5hLsv8umxE/ |title=The Prom |website=Instagram (@sarahlashh) |date=2024-04-08}}</ref> Keelor, her voice teacher, wrote: "It's such a blast playing opposite my student and future star, Sarah Lash!"<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10160369130139613 |title=The Prom |website=Facebook (Shelley Keelor) |date=2024-03-29}}</ref> Slow Burn lists her among its cast members.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://slowburntheatre.org/blog/cast-member/sarah-lash/ |title=Sarah Lash |website=Slow Burn Theatre Company}}</ref>
 
=== Coastal Carolina University ===
At Coastal Carolina University she was in the theatre department's productions of ''Grease'', directed by Steven Higginbotham at Wheelwright Auditorium (October 17–26, 2025),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.coastal.edu/news/fall2025/classicmusicalgreasehitsccuswheelwrightstage/ |title=Classic musical Grease hits CCU's Wheelwright stage |website=Coastal Carolina University |date=2025-10}}</ref> and ''Godspell'' (February 2026), a futuristic production set "in the age of AI".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/robert.lukey/posts/pfbid02DGiQ2oDM4vsGFs2LKFMnwCVVrHvVtrLg6rDhUNAw7LpGfCJ8sveQKXcbpKJSnm2Tl |title=Godspell opens |website=Facebook (Robert J. Lukey) |date=2026-02-07}}</ref> In May 2026 she danced in ''Stanza'', a concert of mostly student-choreographed dances inspired by student poetry, which she called her first dance concert. That spring she also took part in the Opera Workshop's "Miscast" performance.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/robert.lukey/posts/pfbid0TYXcbUeHP3mhrtMLG6YgQyGPdxtYr7L9bqD5DXkJE3M7aZoRAusfAjxSYUvtd8Hrl |title=Stanza |website=Facebook (Robert J. Lukey) |date=2026-05-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/robert.lukey/posts/pfbid02HoUUVekCZgFUXhHSHg47i2SaBueXdS4WSatsjEesg42iK5p3XQUJEw8EzfndpPx5l |title=Opera Workshop: Miscast |website=Facebook (Robert J. Lukey) |date=2026-04-30}}</ref> Looking ahead to her junior year, she wrote: "My time @ccutheatre has fulfilled and challenged me in indescribable ways, and I can't wait to start the second half of this journey in the coming year."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DavqpM3mj63/ |title=Godspell and Stanza |website=Instagram (@sarahlashh) |date=2026-07-13}}</ref>


== Selected credits ==
== Selected credits ==
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| 2019 || ''Rent'' (school edition) || Ensemble (soloist, "Seasons of Love") || [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]]
| 2019 || ''Rent'' (school edition) || Ensemble (soloist, "Seasons of Love") || [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]]
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| 2019 || ''The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee'' || Cast member || [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]]
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| 2019 || ''Heathers'' || Heather Chandler || [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]]
| 2019 || ''Heathers'' || Heather Chandler || [[Showtime Performing Arts Theatre]]
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| 2021 || Michael Soper Music concert || Soloist ("In My Dreams") || Carnegie Hall, New York
|-
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| 2022 || ''The Drowsy Chaperone'' || The Drowsy Chaperone || Boca Raton Community High School
| 2022 || ''The Drowsy Chaperone'' || The Drowsy Chaperone || Boca Raton Community High School
|-
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| 2023 || ''Hello, Dolly!'' || Dolly Levi || Boca Raton Community High School
| 2023 || ''Hello, Dolly!'' || Dolly Levi || Boca Raton Community High School
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| 2023 || ''Broadway Extensive'' || Performer || Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, West Palm Beach
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| 2024 || ''The Prom'' || Alyssa Greene || Slow Burn Theatre Company, Broward Center
| 2024 || ''The Prom'' || Alyssa Greene || Slow Burn Theatre Company, Broward Center
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| 2025 || ''Grease'' || Cast member || Coastal Carolina University, Wheelwright Auditorium
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| 2026 || ''Godspell'' || Cast member || Coastal Carolina University
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| 2026 || ''Stanza'' (dance concert) || Dancer || Coastal Carolina University
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== External links ==
== External links ==
* [https://slowburntheatre.org/blog/cast-member/sarah-lash/ Sarah Lash] at Slow Burn Theatre Company
* [https://slowburntheatre.org/blog/cast-member/sarah-lash/ Sarah Lash] at Slow Burn Theatre Company
* [https://www.instagram.com/sarahlashh/ @sarahlashh] on Instagram


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Sarah Lash
Sarah Lash
Lash (photo: Slow Burn Theatre Company)
Musical theatre actress · Singer · Dancer
Personal information
Based in South Florida
Career
Education School in Deerfield Beach, Florida
Boca Raton Community High School (2023)
Coastal Carolina University
Degree(s) Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in Musical Theatre, Coastal Carolina University (expected 2028)
Training Showtime Performing Arts Theatre; Taylor Made Dance & Theatre (from 2020); voice with Michael Soper
Years active c. 2018–present
Performance
Notable roles Alyssa Greene (The Prom, Slow Burn Theatre Company, 2024)
Dolly Levi (Hello, Dolly!, 2023)
The Drowsy Chaperone (The Drowsy Chaperone, 2022)
Heather Chandler (Heathers, 2019)
Companies Slow Burn Theatre Company
Recognition & links
Awards Future Stars, best vocalist (2019)
Outstanding Musical Theater award, Boca Raton Community High School (2023, shared)
Dream Awards nominee (2023)
Website Slow Burn Theatre cast page

Sarah Lash is an American musical theatre actress and singer from South Florida. She trained and performed at Showtime Performing Arts Theatre in Boca Raton, where she played Heather Chandler in Heathers (2019). She went on to play Alyssa Greene in Slow Burn Theatre Company's production of The Prom at the Broward Center (2024).[1][2]

Education

  • School in Deerfield Beach, Florida
  • Boca Raton Community High School, Boca Raton, Florida (graduated May 2023)
  • Coastal Carolina University, Conway, South Carolina: Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre (expected 2028)

Training

Lash went to school in Deerfield Beach, Florida, and then to Boca Raton Community High School, where she graduated in May 2023. She also sang in the school's chorus.[3] At the senior awards she shared the school's Outstanding Musical Theater award with Luanda de Hilster and Emma Maass, and the three also received theater excellence awards at the senior drama banquet.[4][5] Outside school she performed at Showtime Performing Arts Theatre and trained at Taylor Made Dance & Theatre. She is studying musical theatre at Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina, in the class of 2028, working towards the university's audition-only B.F.A. in Musical Theatre.[6][7]

She began training at Taylor Made in June 2020, with the summer intensives at the studio's new Boca Raton location.[8] In 2022 she was one of Taylor Made's senior studio captains, helping with the studio's day-to-day running, marketing and planning.[9] That year she also took a dance workshop with the Broadway performer Charlotte d'Amboise at the Straz Center in Tampa.[10] Taylor Made prepared her, de Hilster and Emma Maass for the College Audition Project (CAP) auditions in Atlanta in November 2022.[11]

Career

Showtime Performing Arts Theatre

Lash was a regular performer at Showtime in downtown Boca Raton. While still in middle school she joined the teen and adult cast of Rent (March 30 – April 14, 2019). A reviewer wrote that her improvised solo in "Seasons of Love" "garnered applause each and every night where the audience interrupted the song in mid sing when Lash hit her high 'whistle note'".[12][13] That year she won best vocalist at the Future Stars competition in Boca Raton, singing "In My Dreams" from Anastasia.[12][14]

She was a member of ShowStoppers, Showtime's auditioned "triple threat" Broadway performance troupe for middle and high school students, along with Luanda de Hilster.[15]

In May 2019 she appeared in Showtime's production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.[16]

In December 2019 she played the lead Heather, Heather Chandler, in Showtime's Heathers. Luanda de Hilster played Heather McNamara and Carmela Nussbaum played Heather Duke. The reviewer wrote: "Lash's condescension is impeccable and her voice acting is spot on routinely going from quiet hate, to screaming out commands to the other Heathers."[1]

Boca Raton High School

At Boca Raton Community High School, Lash played the title role in The Drowsy Chaperone (2022), opposite Eryk Dewire as Adolfo. A reviewer called her portrayal of "the drunken, frustrated Chaperone … a tour-de-force acting performance embellished with her angelic award-winning voice".[17] As a senior she played the lead, Dolly Levi, in Hello, Dolly! (2023), and was nominated for a 2023 Dream Award, the Palm Beach County high school musical theatre awards.[18]

Concerts

On December 18, 2021, as a student of the voice teacher Michael Soper, she sang "In My Dreams" from Anastasia at Carnegie Hall in New York. Afterwards she wrote: "New York was a dream."[19][20] On July 29, 2023 she performed in a "Broadway Extensive" show at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach.[21]

Slow Burn Theatre Company

In spring 2024 Lash played Alyssa Greene in Slow Burn Theatre Company's The Prom, directed by Patrick Fitzwater, at the Amaturo Theater in the Broward Center for the Performing Arts (March 23 – April 7). Regina Brown played Emma Nolan, Alyssa's girlfriend, and Shelley Keelor played Alyssa's mother, Mrs. Greene.[2][22] Florida Theater On Stage called her "the lovely-voiced Sarah Lash", and wrote that she "shines in her angst-ridden song 'Alyssa Greene,' about the pressure her controlling mother puts on her".[2] It was her first professional show. Afterwards she wrote: "We built a prom! My first professional show will forever be one for the books!", with "a special thank you to Patrick for helping me live my dream".[23] Keelor, her voice teacher, wrote: "It's such a blast playing opposite my student and future star, Sarah Lash!"[24] Slow Burn lists her among its cast members.[25]

Coastal Carolina University

At Coastal Carolina University she was in the theatre department's productions of Grease, directed by Steven Higginbotham at Wheelwright Auditorium (October 17–26, 2025),[26] and Godspell (February 2026), a futuristic production set "in the age of AI".[27] In May 2026 she danced in Stanza, a concert of mostly student-choreographed dances inspired by student poetry, which she called her first dance concert. That spring she also took part in the Opera Workshop's "Miscast" performance.[28][29] Looking ahead to her junior year, she wrote: "My time @ccutheatre has fulfilled and challenged me in indescribable ways, and I can't wait to start the second half of this journey in the coming year."[30]

Selected credits

Year Production Role Venue / company
2019 Rent (school edition) Ensemble (soloist, "Seasons of Love") Showtime Performing Arts Theatre
2019 The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Cast member Showtime Performing Arts Theatre
2019 Heathers Heather Chandler Showtime Performing Arts Theatre
2021 Michael Soper Music concert Soloist ("In My Dreams") Carnegie Hall, New York
2022 The Drowsy Chaperone The Drowsy Chaperone Boca Raton Community High School
2023 Hello, Dolly! Dolly Levi Boca Raton Community High School
2023 Broadway Extensive Performer Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, West Palm Beach
2024 The Prom Alyssa Greene Slow Burn Theatre Company, Broward Center
2025 Grease Cast member Coastal Carolina University, Wheelwright Auditorium
2026 Godspell Cast member Coastal Carolina University
2026 Stanza (dance concert) Dancer Coastal Carolina University

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 David de Hilster.""Heathers": Off-Broadway at Its Very Best in Downtown Boca". luanda.dehilster.com(2019-12-24).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Oline H. Cogdill."Everyone, come to Slow Burn's The Prom". Florida Theater On Stage(2024-03-27).
  3. ↑ "Boca High fall chorus concert". Facebook(2021-11-12).
  4. ↑ "Senior awards". Facebook(2023-04-25).
  5. ↑ "Senior drama banquet". Facebook(2023-05-11).
  6. ↑ "Sarah Lash (@sarahlashh)". Instagram.Retrieved 2026-11-07.
  7. ↑ "B.F.A. – Musical Theatre Concentration". Coastal Carolina University.
  8. ↑ "Taylor Made summer intensives". Facebook(2020-06-08).
  9. ↑ "Luanda Wins Taylor Made Scholarship & Named Head Studio Captain". luanda.dehilster.com(2022-05-30).
  10. ↑ "Workshop with Charlotte d'Amboise". Facebook(2022-03-18).
  11. ↑ "CAP auditions in Atlanta". Facebook(2022-11-08).
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 David de Hilster."Luanda Thrives in First All Adult Cast". luanda.dehilster.com(2018-10-22).
  13. ↑ "Seasons of Love by the cast from Rent". YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre)(2019-06-05).
  14. ↑ "Sarah Lash Wins in Future Stars 2019 with "In My Dreams" from Anastasia". YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre)(2019-06-05).
  15. ↑ "ShowStoppers Broadway Troupe". Showtime Performing Arts Theatre (archived).Retrieved 2026-11-07.
  16. ↑ "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - May 2019 - Showtime Performing Arts Theatre". YouTube (Showtime Performing Arts Theatre)(2019-10-13).
  17. ↑ David de Hilster."Back Home". luanda.dehilster.com(2022-04-17).
  18. ↑ "Luanda Earns Dream Awards Nomination for a Second Year". luanda.dehilster.com(2023-05-10).
  19. ↑ "Carnegie Hall, December 18, 2021". Facebook (Michael Soper Music)(2021-12-23).
  20. ↑ "New York was a dream". Instagram (@sarahlashh)(2021-12-30).
  21. ↑ "Broadway Extensive at the Kravis Center". Facebook(2023-07-29).
  22. ↑ Christopher McDaniel."Will You Go to 'The Prom' With Me?". South Florida Theater(2024-04-02).
  23. ↑ "The Prom". Instagram (@sarahlashh)(2024-04-08).
  24. ↑ "The Prom". Facebook (Shelley Keelor)(2024-03-29).
  25. ↑ "Sarah Lash". Slow Burn Theatre Company.
  26. ↑ "Classic musical Grease hits CCU's Wheelwright stage". Coastal Carolina University(2025-10).
  27. ↑ "Godspell opens". Facebook (Robert J. Lukey)(2026-02-07).
  28. ↑ "Stanza". Facebook (Robert J. Lukey)(2026-05-01).
  29. ↑ "Opera Workshop: Miscast". Facebook (Robert J. Lukey)(2026-04-30).
  30. ↑ "Godspell and Stanza". Instagram (@sarahlashh)(2026-07-13).

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