Sara Armstrong is the Director of the CRLT Theatre Program. A theatre artist with over twenty-five years of experience as a performer, playwright, director, arts administrator, and educator, Sara establishes strategic priorities for the theatre program that align with the Players’ commitments to advancing equity in higher education spaces via performance-centered professional development. In her role, she writes scripts, directs new pieces, and designs and facilitates sessions for university instructors and academic leaders. In addition to her work with the theatre program, she also serves on the Senior Leadership Team at CRLT, the advisory board of the Inclusive History Project, and was a founding member of ADVANCE’s RISE committee. Sara earned a Ph.D. from the Interdisciplinary Theatre and Drama program at Northwestern University. Her dissertation focused on the role operating theories of embodiment play in privileging and marginalizing particular student bodies in performance learning spaces.