Sarah Burgess

Sarah Burgess is an American playwright and screenwriter whose works include Dry Powder and Kings and the American anthology true crime television series American Crime Story. Career Theater Burgess took part in Ars Nova’s Play Group, where she wrote Dry Powder and presented it in a reading. Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director of The Public Theater in New York, discovered the play soon after. “For me it happens once a decade,” Eustis explained. “‘But I read her play and immediately said, ‘We’re producing this.’”