Sarah Jae Leiber

Sarah Jae Leiber

Sarah Jae Leiber is a Jewish playwright, screenwriter, comedy writer, and essayist from just outside of Philadelphia, PA. Her work exists at Bitch Media, Bright Wall/Dark Room, JTA, The Broadway Beat, BroadwayWorld, Screen Queens, Sally Mag, Small Screen, The Niche, Uncomfortable Revolution, The Validation Project, and Screen Mayhem. Sarah works in marketing and communications at the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene. She previously served as entertainment editor at BroadwayWorld and was a member of Actors Theatre of Louisville’s 48th Professional Training Company. B.A. in theatre and history from Muhlenberg College. You can find her whole portfolio here, and you can find her on Twitter @sarahjaeleiber.

Blog Posts

'Nina Is An Athlete'

'Nina Is An Athlete' Offers A Portrait of Israeli Paralympic Badminton Champion

Sarah Jae Leiber

Nina Is An Athlete succeeds at profiling an athlete struggling with how to end a career on her own terms.

Arielle Zaytsev Headshot

Meet Arielle Zaytsev, the Director Behind 'Ras(Putin)' a Gay Reimagining of Russian History

Sarah Jae Leiber

Playwright and actor Arielle Zaytsev's imaginative new play imagines Grigori Rasputin and Vladimir Putin as lovers.

Oklahoma Samovar NYC Production

"Oklahoma Samovar" Review

Sarah Jae Leiber

Oklahoma Samovar's high points come from the exploration of intergenerational relationships, but are stymied by other lower-energy, confusingly placed points.

"The Matriarchs" Play Logo

"The Matriarchs" Review

Sarah Jae Leiber

The Matriarchs imagines a universe where life’s unfairest moments can be made more tolerable through friendship, conversation, and understanding.

"A Real Pain" Film Still

"A Real Pain" Explores the Grief We Inherit

Sarah Jae Leiber

The film is at its sharpest depicting grief as a series of elephants in rooms, of ghost towns beneath well-trodden cobblestones.

Topics: Film, Holocaust
Kristen Bell and Adam Brody in "Nobody Wants This"

Romcom Magic Can't Save "Nobody Wants This"

Sarah Jae Leiber

Sparks fly between the charming leads, but the series too often relies on tired stereotypes and shallow conflicts. 

Topics: Film
Elizabeth Taylor, circa 1955

The Self-Mythology of Elizabeth Taylor

Sarah Jae Leiber

The film shines brightest as a catalog of one woman’s robust self-mythology, written and rewritten to protect herself from the reality of how she was perceived by the world.

Topics: Film, LGBTQIA Rights
Maestro Film Still

Beyond "Maestro's" Prosthetics and Into Bernstein's World

Sarah Jae Leiber

Bradley Cooper’s Maestro nose, in context, reads less to me like internalized antisemitism and more like Cooper’s deep, spiritual obsession with getting it right.

Topics: Film, Music
Barbie Film

Barbie is a Beautiful Golem

Sarah Jae Leiber

The truth at the center of Barbie is something about iconography and idolatry, and how our anxieties are valid, but projecting them onto a symbol will never save us.

Loolwa Khazzoom and her Bandmates: woman with mouth open as if screaming, man on either side of her

Loolwa Khazzoom on her new single, "The Convert's Quest"

Sarah Jae Leiber

JWA talks to Loolwa Khazzoom, frontwoman of the rock band Iraqis in Pajamas, about the inspiration for her new single.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Sarah Jae Leiber." (Viewed on June 13, 2026) <https://qa.jwa.org/blog/author/leiber-sarah>.