Sarah Kornfeld is an American author, producer, and cultural executive whose work explores the intersections of love, trauma, and cultural resilience through fiction, journalism, and creative projects.

Raised in the experimental theater of New York City, Sarah grew up immersed in the avant-garde world of her father, Lawrence Kornfeld, the managing director of The Living Theater and founder of The Judson Poets Theater and Theater for the New City. These iconic spaces shaped her early artistic sensibilities, where she performed with The Bread and Puppet Theater, The Ridiculous Theatrical Company, and other pioneering ensembles.

Sarah’s writing is informed by her early experience engaging with and looking at bodies in spaces. She started working in installation and site-specific performance at seventeen working for Dancing In The Streets, and was trained on both the French American Dance Exchange and the seminal Grand Central Dances. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, she studied dance and choreography with Viola Farber, Bill T. Jones, David Gordon, and Elizabeth Streb. At Sarah Lawrence, she also studied writing and developed plays utilizing pastiche-based techniques pioneered by David Bowie and Brian Eno.

A frequent speaker on creative resilience and cultural innovation, Sarah was a featured guest at the Women in Web3 Global Summit at Davos in 2024. For 25 years, she lived by the sea in California, where she taught Cultural Curation at San Francisco University. Now, back in New York, she continues to write, collaborate, and advocate for the power of storytelling to reimagine how we move through the world.