Sarah Mitteldorf

Sarah will work with a group of adults who were adopted as children to create a performance that explores their identities and histories. Inspired by her own experience being adopted as a baby from China, Sarah wants to create a supportive environment for other adoptees who similarly may need space to explore loss and abandonment. Sarah hopes that by creating safe spaces for emotional exploration and story sharing, adoptees will have their feelings and experiences validated. The group will turn their personal stories into a public performance piece that they hope to share with family, friends, and advocates.

Sarah will bring together a community of young people adopted from China to share their experiences and develop them into a theatre performance that they can share with their families and community. This process will give the participants a chance to ask their own questions and articulate their thoughts to those in their larger community. Because the process of creating and performing theatre brings people together, creating art with this community will give the adoptees a chance to explore issues that they may not have had the chance to explore on their own, and will give their friends, families, and peers a chance to hear them tell their stories that are often not articulated.