Profile

Sara Valentine

guest artist

In 2004, Sara co-founded Really Inventive Stuff. In 2007, she made her solo orchestra debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Her orchestra performances include Beyond the Score presentations with The Philadelphia Orchestra (Elgar’s The Enigmas Variations and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony) and the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra (Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony).

As a member of Really Inventive Stuff, Sara has performed family concerts with orchestras around North America, including Philadelphia, Saint Louis, Winnipeg, Kansas City, Richmond, Rochester, Annapolis, Charlotte, New Haven, Portland (Maine), Princeton, Symphony in C, Richmond, Richardson, Harrisburg, Texarkana and Tulane University. In 2014, she made her international debut with the Singapore Symphony as narrator for Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, appearing as Ms. Symphonia Semi d’Quaver—a renowned British “orchestra-ologist” and ardent fan of Henry Purcell.

Regional theater credits include Philadelphia’s Arden Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company, Resident Ensemble Players, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, and the Shakespeare festivals of North Carolina, Philadelphia, Colorado and Maine.

Sara is Assistant Professor of Theatre at Tulane University in New Orleans, and continues to develop family programming for orchestras as co-founder and creative director of ReallyInventiveStuff.com. She is a graduate of Ithaca College and the Professional Theatre Training Program (PTTP) at the University of Delaware.