Sarah Sherman
Sarah Sherman is a screenwriter and director from Portland, Oregon whose first feature film Young Hearts was executive produced by Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass and debuted at the 2020 Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah under the name Thunderbolt In Mine Eye. The film also enjoyed acceptance to Seattle International Film Festival, Newport Beach Film Festival and Portland International Film Festival, after which it was acquired by HBO Max. In June 2021 Sherman was hired by Mar Vista Entertainment & Particular Crowd to co-direct a family/holiday feature starring Alison Fernandez and Judy Reyes, and she has previously acted in a television pilot titled Two Dogs that she created and wrote opposite It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's Glenn Howerton. Sherman most recently directed short film September (written by/starring Sophie Jones' Jessica Barr) which premiered at Cinema Femme Short Film Fest in April 2022. She is a frequent collaborator of her brother, the actor Zachary Ray Sherman, and she resides in Montana with her two children.