About

Sarah Bellamy is a nationally renowned racial equity facilitator and practitioner of racial healing. Her methods are holistic, profound, and foster powerful intimacy and authenticity for clients. She brings a wealth of scholarship, strategic acuity, and deep compassion to each consultative or coaching relationship.  

Sarah is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied creative writing and postcolonial theory. Her creative work manifests itself in memoir, personal essays, plays, and short stories. She is a stage director and the artistic director of Penumbra Theatre Company, one of the nation’s oldest and largest African American theatre companies. Her stewardship of the organization came on the heels of her father’s forty year tenure and strikes a purposeful balance between a vitalized future and a reverent past. Under her leadership the company has produced critically acclaimed art and racial equity training programs that inspire the heart and guide responsible social action. 

A respected scholar and professor, Sarah also holds an M.A. in the Humanities from the University of Chicago. She has taught at Macalester College, the University of Minnesota, and served as Visiting Professor of Theatre and Culture at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. Her lectures on the power of race and representation have been presented across the country illuminating the ways in which images, narratives, and media influence perception and ultimately shape lives. She is a skilled and dynamic public speaker offering audiences fresh, big-hearted, and courageous perspectives on a wide range of topics. She is especially recognized for her work on racial healing, authenticity, and resiliency. 

As the founder of the Twin Cities Theatres of Color Coalition, Sarah has applied strategic and innovative thinking to address disparities in philanthropy for arts organizations of color, support community organizing for artists of color, and increase accountability for predominately white institutions attempting to create programming that engages diverse audiences. 

Sarah has been awarded the Hubert H. Humphrey Public Leadership Award, a Bush Foundation Fellowship, and served on the Board of Directors for Theatre Communications Group. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for The Jerome Foundation. 

She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota with her husband and two small children.