RADIO MAN

by Sarah Groustra

Full-Length Play
90 min | 3W | Unit Set

Two sisters trek across the post-apocalyptic wasteland with only an eccentric voice on their transistor radio for company, their world wiped away by climate catastrophe. When an exciting stranger stumbles upon their campsite, they must decide whether or not the newcomer can stay. The looming dangers of the natural world still threaten to take their lives, but has a more serious danger already arrived?

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Production History

  • world premiere production: Underbelly Theatre Company/Reaching Glory Productions, The Paradise Factory NYC - dir. Tatiana Baccari (May 2026)

  • SoHo Playhouse Lighthouse Series, off-Broadway - dir. Mackenna Goodrich (April 2025)

  • festival premiere production: the 2023 SheNYC Festival at the Connelly Theater, New York City, dir. Mackenna Goodrich, starring Emma Mineo, Lisa Naso, & Claire McPartland. Winner: SheNYC Festival Award for Best Script, Best Direction, Best Lead Actress (Emma Mineo)

Awards and Recognition

  • inclusion in the curriculum of "Society and the Future" 2024 humanities course at Davidson College with Professor Sharon Green

  • SheNYC 2023 Best Script Award

  • 2023 WaterWorks Theater Festival Finalist

  • 2022 Austin Film Festival Second-Rounder

  • 2021 James E. Michael Prize for excellence in playwriting (Kenyon College Award)  

SARAH GROUSTRA (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based, Massachusetts-born playwright and theatermaker. Sarah's work has been produced off-Broadway at the SheNYC Festival (Winner, Best Script 2023), the Paradise Factory, Soho Playhouse, the Concord Theatricals OOB Festival, and at regional theaters across the country. She was awarded the 2024 Austin Film Festival Stage Play Award, was a finalist for the 2023 Jane Chambers Award, was named a 2022 Ascending Playwright by Yonder Window Theater Company, and is a resident artist with Breaking & Entering Theatre Collective.

 Sarah has developed new work with the Valdez Theatre Conference, Under Construction Playwright's Group (the Road Theater), Uptown 1 Train, Purple Light Palette Cohort, the Parsnip Ship, Harlot Productions, Forager Theater Company, and Historically Close Friends, and has had new plays commissioned by Andy's Summer Playhouse and the Oklahoma Shakespearean Festival. 

​Sarah's passion project is making plays accessible to readers and sustainable for playwrights, and founded 1319 Press in service of both these goals.