Sarah Marshall (born ) is a stage actress working primarily in the
Washington, D.C. region. She has been nominated for the Helen Hayes
Award seventeen times and won the award in .Marshall was born in
Kansas, the fifth of eight children in a Catholic military family.
During her childhood, she lived in several places in the South. Most
of her family currently resides in the south.As a child, Marshall and
her siblings produced plays at their home. Marshall decided to become
an actress in the seventh grade after winning a citywide monologue
competition in Huntsville, Alabama. Playing the comedic role of the
maid in her middle school's production of Junior Miss led her to focus
on character acting. She acted throughout high school and college,
graduating from Birmingham-Southern College with a degree in
theater.Marshall moved to Washington with the intent of attending
graduate school at Catholic University or American University, but
enrolled in classes at the Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory instead,
working as a maid to support herself. During the s, Marshall performed
in nine Studio Theatre productions, including a role as Jo, a
pregnant waif in Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey, termed Marshall's
"breakthrough performance" by friend and Studio Theatre Artistic
Director Joy Zinoman. She also drew attention for her roles in Studio
Theatre's Miss Margarida's Way and My Sister is in This House, for
which she received her first Helen Hayes nomination.
Washington, D.C. region. She has been nominated for the Helen Hayes
Award seventeen times and won the award in .Marshall was born in
Kansas, the fifth of eight children in a Catholic military family.
During her childhood, she lived in several places in the South. Most
of her family currently resides in the south.As a child, Marshall and
her siblings produced plays at their home. Marshall decided to become
an actress in the seventh grade after winning a citywide monologue
competition in Huntsville, Alabama. Playing the comedic role of the
maid in her middle school's production of Junior Miss led her to focus
on character acting. She acted throughout high school and college,
graduating from Birmingham-Southern College with a degree in
theater.Marshall moved to Washington with the intent of attending
graduate school at Catholic University or American University, but
enrolled in classes at the Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory instead,
working as a maid to support herself. During the s, Marshall performed
in nine Studio Theatre productions, including a role as Jo, a
pregnant waif in Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey, termed Marshall's
"breakthrough performance" by friend and Studio Theatre Artistic
Director Joy Zinoman. She also drew attention for her roles in Studio
Theatre's Miss Margarida's Way and My Sister is in This House, for
which she received her first Helen Hayes nomination.
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