CAREER SO FAR
Sarah finds that her introductions always tend to be multifaceted, a repercussion of having a multifaceted work experience in the professional world. With a range of skills in several different industries - theatre performance, creative, technical, and persuasive writing, administration, customer service, and education - Sarah is often intrigued as to how to best summarize both her skill set and my work experience. However, in every area she has worked, her personal qualities, motivation, creativity, organization, conscientiousness, and intentionality shine through every skill she has learned and become adept in.
She's worked as a professional performer since 2018, performing with regional theaters in the Central Florida area such as Winter Park Playhouse, Titusville Playhouse, Orlando Family Stage and Theater West End. She also worked for Disney Cruise Line and is currently employed in entertainment at Universal Studios Florida.
In addition, she has spent the past three years working for Breaking Barre, a fitness studio in Central Florida voted Ovation's Best Gym & Fitness Health Studio in 2021 and Best Barre Studio with Best of Orlando in 2024. Acting as Front Desk Manager helped her directly apply her Bachelor's of Organizational Leadership & Business. Utilizing skills in business operations, customer service & experience, creative problem solving and business writing by creating and developing the Front Desk Employee Handbook, documenting and developing daily and long term operations, and crafting an Employee Review program.
CABARETS
Some of her favorite accomplishments involve her independent works. She has written, produced and starred in several solo performances, It's My Party and I'll Sing if I Want to, Ring in the Season: A Frozen Cabaret but the most notable being With A Smile and A Song: A Celebration of the Disney Princesses. In 2022, she won the Broadway World Orlando Award, Runner-Up Best Cabaret for this show.
The best and most fulfilling aspect of her cabaret work include the yearly fundraising cabaret for the Florida Fellowship Foundation, an organization that helps provide relief and support to people caught in emergency situations. After Ring in the Season: A Frozen Cabaret, $1,800 was raised to help families in need that holiday season!
AUDIENCE REVIEWS
"Watching a cabaret of Sarah’s is a reminder of everything there is to love about story-telling, about what makes it worth while. There is always an ethos, always an answer to: Why this song? Why this story? Why now? Sarah finds the sincerity, heart, nuance, and honesty in all that she does, but especially in her cabaret work. She is raw, but equally polished. So organic, but so well rehearsed. This invites audiences to breathe, because they can trust her. In a way, her cabarets are just one big exhale. This feeling, it is singular, because Sarah is singular. Perhaps that is the best part of her performances.
Oh yeah, and boy can she sing." - Sophie Cooper, Wicked & 321 Company Management Assistant
"Sarah’s skills and talents in performing arts truly does suspend reality, and take you somewhere where her passions are the author of every endless possibility. The It’s My Party and I’ll Sing if I Want to cabaret took the audience through Sarah’s life, with a song representing a pivotal year of her life. Packed with love, wit, and wonder, the genius performance captured every detail that makes live theater irresistible, but still so personal and true to her." - Key Bastos, Content Creator
"I was looking forward to listening to some wonderful music tonight & knew I would be impressed and entertained. But I wasn't expecting to be so moved by Sarah's stories and truth. Her resilience, kindness, introspection and her path to joy are inspiring....I loved the show and will never think of any Disney Princess again the same way." - Erika Zarda Cooper, Former VP of Advertising & Marketing, Orlando Sentinel
"Such an entertaining and well performed show! Sarah Anne Mae brought home all the feelings through songs and introspection about how the Disney Princess and their stories make an impact. A new generation of Central Florida Performers is rising!" - Jessica Rosario, Digital Creator
"Sarah's shows remind me of why we do what we love." - Ryan Petty Matthews, Choreographer & Actor, Orlando Family Stage/Gershwin Entertainment