Join Broadway veteran Sara Jean Ford as she brings her hit BroadwayWorld web series “The Aging Ingénue” to the stage, with an raucously funny evening of music and storytelling. An Evening with The Aging Ingénue is hosted by Sara’s fictional alter-ego Claire Cooke — a Broadway starlette all grown up — as she struggles to navigate her new reality as an aging actor & mother – all while singing songs that she is far too old to sing (and sharing secrets that she is far too comfortable revealing). 

Featuring songs from Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Minchin, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Charles Strouse, and Stephen Schwartz — really just a bunch of saccharine sweet & virginally youthful songs — but sung with the emotional depth and gravitas that can only be gained from what 40+ years in this business will sear into your soul. 

Sara is an actor, singer, writer and filmmaker living in New York City. She graduated with a BFA in Acting from Carnegie Mellon University’s prestigious Drama program. Broadway credits include: Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera, Jellylorum in CATS, Smitty in How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, Petra in A Little Night Music, and Arlene in Finian’s Rainbow.

A lover of writing and producing her own work, Sara cowrote and starred in her web-series, The Aging Ingenue- now streaming on Broadwayworld. Sara produced, wrote and starred in her own adaptation of Calamity Jane in Concert for two sold-out audiences at Feinstein’s 54 Below. Sara just starred opposite Wicked’s Jordan Barrow in the short film, Can We Be Honest.

Off Broadway: Sara starred as Louisa in the original revival cast of The Fantasticks and June in Anyone Can Whistle at City Center, Encores! National Tours/ Regional: Wicked, SousatzkaJenny (world premier), 9to5– Judy (North Carolina Theatre), Sunday in the Park With George– Dot, Crimes of the Heart– Babe, and Nellie Oleson in Little House on the Prairie -The Musical (world premier).

She has appeared as a star soloist numerous times at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Disney Hall. Sara grew up acting and singing in Hollywood, CA. Notable credits are: The
Addams Family Values, Picket Fences, and Michael Jackson’s HISTory Album.