What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Craft beer in the shower.
Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Nell Gwynn started out selling oranges at plays and worked her way up as an actor when women were just starting to be allowed on the stage.
Which living person do you most admire?
My mom.
Which is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
I have a case of the “queer, divine dissatisfaction” that Martha Graham wrote about and I get in my own way.
What is your greatest extravagance?
Blueberries.
What is your favourite journey?
When you arrive somewhere new and you almost feel like maybe you’ve left yourself behind.
On what occasion do you lie?
Always when the truth would be painful and unhelpful.
Which living person do you most despise?
I truly wish a humiliating end for Donald Trump.
What or who is the greatest love of your life?
I love a handful of people and I couldn’t choose just one.
When and where were you happiest?
Last summer when I went back to the city where I did university, Philadelphia.
Which talent would you most like to have?
I would love to be an acrobat.
What is your current state of mind?
This spring was a hard couple months.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
I moved very far from home when I was 22 only because I wanted to.
If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what do you think it would be?
I’ve always felt that I would be an excellent 18th century pirate.
What is your most treasured possession?
A ratty piece of yarn that used to be a crocheted baby blanket.
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Wet socks, allergies, and being hangry.
What is your favourite occupation?
I like to occupy my time with unusual restaurants and wandering around cities and mountains.
What is the quality you most like in a man?
Good listener.
What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Good listener.
Who are your favourite writers?
Sarah Ruhl, Charles Mee, and Eisa Davis.
What is your motto?
I say “right?” a lot, which I noticed because a Spanish friend started saying it a lot whenever we spoke in English and I realized she says it because I say it.
Sarah Stearns, originally from Boston, USA, studied theater at Temple University and the Headlong Performance Institute, both in Philadelphia. She now makes original physical theater in Barcelona where she moved in 2015 to complete a two year Lecoq training program at Berty Tovias Estudis Escuela Internacional de Teatro.
