Press
"Sara Barron is one of the most talented young performers on the New York scene. Her stories are exquisite, poignant and hilarious..."
— Lea Thau, Executive and Creative Director at The Moth: Urban Storytelling
"Sara Barron is a skillful and engaging storyteller who weaves an entertaining tapestry of tales of celebrity run-ins, worship and eventuality the cold reality of it all. She adeptly crafts her experiences into a unique story of heartbreak in a surreal world of cutthroat ambition and undeserving stardom. Her own painful honesty creates funny and larger than life anecdotes that probably won't make to Page Six but we wish they could."
— Susannah Perlman, Executive Producer Good Jewish Girls Gone Bad
"The victim of a hopeless girlhood, the now-voluptuous Sara Barron delights the audience as she spins her tales of teen humiliation and twenty-something urban woe into pure narrative gold."
— Stan Richardson, nytheatre.com
"Run don't walk to experience Barron's hilarious PEOPLE ARE UNAPPEALING ...her coming of age yarn is like Sex and the City on steroids... (she's) a dynamic writer and performer who proves once and for all that women can be smarter and funnier than men."
— Adrian Chamberlin, Victoria Times
"A tour-de-force performer."
— Andy Borowitz of The New Yorker
"People are unappealing. But Sara Barron is not. She weaves together personal anecdotes and pop culture in a way that is instructive to any humorist or writer or clandestine US Weekly reader. She tells a story like a cooler, wackier Sedaris sibling."
— Amy Shearn, iVillage
"This 20-something comedienne will convince you she's a star in the making."
— Janet Munsil, executive producer, Intrepid Theatre
"What Barron finds... are hilarious vignettes filled with heartfelt detail."
— Kate Cino, Boulevard: The Magaizine for Urban Living
"Sara Barron spends an hour making the audience laugh with her quirky and sardonic wit... She understands what's funny and makes the most of it, getting big laughs in all the right places."
— Kimberly Patterson, OffOff Online.com
This year, Munsil is especially enthusiastic about several first-five-seconds winners. In particular, she's thrilled about one called Downtown to Chinatown, performed by New York's Sara Barron. It's a series of four short stories, which Munsil says is so good she's watched them over and over again (instead of just the obligatory once — and by the way, she says she does watch each show all the way through when she's trying to decide if it's something that fits the festival).
"We just couldn't believe our luck when we saw this tape," she says. "We wanted to say she was here at our festival before somebody gives her a TV series!"
— Monday Magaizine