Pamela Sabaugh is an award-winning actor, playwright, singer-songwriter, director and teaching artist. She received her MFA in Acting from Rutgers University where she studied under renown teachers, Maggie Flanigan and William Esper, and has been working professionally as a performer and story teller for over two decades. Throughout her NYC-based career Pamela has originated roles for contemporary American playwrights the likes of Samuel D. Hunter, Bekah Brunstetter and John Guare, and has been lauded for her rich interpretations of classic roles, from Sophocles' Antigone to Shakespeare's Ophelia (not to mention Horatio and Rosencrance).
She is the first professional low-vision actor to have played the title role in Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney - a "ground breaking performance" which received much acclaim, most recently with Keen Company Off-Broadway, (named Best Revival of 2019 by The Wall Street Journal), and over a decade earlier with the Amaryllis Theatre Company at the Adrienne in Philadelphia, (which garnered her a Best Actress honorable mention from the Philadelphia Weekly).
On film Pamela has starred in the award-winning film shorts: Lefty & Loosey, Stuck in the In-Between, PaMEla, SaloME, ME; and she co-starred with legendary comedian, Jacky Mason, in the independent features: One Angry Man and Jacky Goldberg P.I. ON TV Pamela had recurring roles on Daytime's One Life To Live, Guiding Light, and was featured on ABC's What Would You Do?
Her autobiographical one-woman rock musical, Immaculate Degeneration, premiered at The Huron Club in Soho as part of the 2012 New York International Fringe Festival. Featuring seven of her original songs and original sound design, the show is a powerful and uplifting telling of how she became legally blind in her early teens (leaving her unable to drive in the Motor City) and her subsequent journey towards acceptance and independence - as well as a working transportation system! The play was published in IndieTheaterNow's Best of the Fringe 2012 and was excerpted for A Detroit Anthology (Belt Publishing 2014). And she continues to share her unique perspective, of living somewhere between sighted and non-sighted, with audiences around the world.
Pamela has also made an artistic home with NY's Theater Breaking Through Barriers (www.tbtb.org) performing with them since 1997 in numerous celebrated Off-Broadway productions including the NY premier of Seneca's Oedipus, world premieres like The Healing (NY Times Critic's Pick), and beloved revivals such as The Cocktail Hour and The Unexpected Guest (nominated for an OBA best revival 2015).
As well as leading lady, Pamela has served as educational director, assistant director and director.
In 2013, to honor TBTB's roots as Theater By The Blind, she directed and produced Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Starring 2 exceptional blind actors in the lead roles of Vladimir and Estragon, the production received the prestigious TCG Global Connections grant to tour to Zagreb, Croatia for the 2013 bi-annual Blind in Theatre (BIT) festival.
Pamela has had the pleasure of touring with TBTB on several occasions, not only to Croatia, but also Japan, and most recently Geneva, Switzerland, where they performed for the United Nations.
Pamela Sabaugh is an award-winning actor, playwright, singer-songwriter, director and teaching artist. She received her MFA in Acting from Rutgers University where she studied under renown teachers, Maggie Flanigan and William Esper, and has been working professionally as a performer and story teller for over two decades. Throughout her NYC-based career Pamela has originated roles for contemporary American playwrights the likes of Samuel D. Hunter, Bekah Brunstetter and John Guare, and has been lauded for her rich interpretations of classic roles, from Sophocles' Antigone to Shakespeare's Ophelia (not to mention Horatio and Rosencrance).
She is the first professional low-vision actor to have played the title role in Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney - a "ground breaking performance" which received much acclaim, most recently with Keen Company Off-Broadway, (named Best Revival of 2019 by The Wall Street Journal), and over a decade earlier with the Amaryllis Theatre Company at the Adrienne in Philadelphia, (which garnered her a Best Actress honorable mention from the Philadelphia Weekly).
On film Pamela has starred in the award-winning film shorts: Lefty & Loosey, Stuck in the In-Between, PaMEla, SaloME, ME; and she co-starred with legendary comedian, Jacky Mason, in the independent features: One Angry Man and Jacky Goldberg P.I. ON TV Pamela had recurring roles on Daytime's One Life To Live, Guiding Light, and was featured on ABC's What Would You Do?