Sarah Grace Stiles (born June 20, 1979) is an American singer and actress known for her work in Off-Broadway and Broadway theatre.
She performed the role of Kate Monster/Lucy the Slut in Avenue Q, and performed in the musical Vanities, in which she played the character of Joanne. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play in 2015 for her performance in Hand to God and the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical in 2019 for her performance in Tootsie. She also voiced Spinel in Steven Universe: The Movie (2019), and Steven Universe Future (2020). She can also be heard as diva Emma Olivia in As the Curtain Rises, an original Broadway soap opera from the Broadway Podcast Network.
Early life Stiles was born on June 20, 1979, in Massachusetts and was later raised in Strafford, New Hampshire attending Strafford Elementary School. After middle school, Stiles began her high school career at Coe-Brown Northwood Academy in New Hampshire.
Career At the age of 12, Stiles started getting involved with theater productions in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Her first role was the titular character in Annie at the Seacoast Repertory Theater. As a teenager, Stiles played two other major roles while living in New Hampshire: Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, and Cinderella in Cinderella. Stiles loved the performing arts so much that she spent her summers working at the Prescott Park Arts Festival in Portsmouth.
Before she got involved with Broadway productions, she trained at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City. Stiles is known for her two roles in the Off-Broadway production Avenue Q, the story of a college student who moves to New York City with big dreams but lives on Avenue Q and has very little money. Stiles plays Kate Monster and Lucy the Slut, who are two puppets that she controls throughout the show.
After Stiles spent much of her time in the production of Avenue Q, she later was offered the role of Joanne in Vanities, a project that Stiles had been involved with for two years. Vanities was performed at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California, but eventually moved to Second Stage in New York. This role in Vanities eventually led Stiles to be involved in recording an album for the songs.
She played the role of Little Red Riding Hood in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical Into the Woods at the Delacorte Theater in New York as part of Shakespeare in the Park. She starred opposite Academy Award nominee Amy Adams and Tony Award winners Donna Murphy and Denis O'Hare.
In 2017, Stiles appeared in the Epix television series Get Shorty. Stiles also appeared in the 2018 film Unsane. Additionally in 2018, Stiles was cast in the recurring role of Axe Capital stock trader Bonnie Barella on the Showtime series Billions (season 3–6).
She appeared in the stage musical version of the film Tootsie beginning in September 2018, which ran at the Cadillac Palace Theatre in Chicago from September 11 to October 14, 2018. The musical opened on Broadway in April 2019. In the third season of the Epix television series Get Shorty, Stiles' character, Gladys Parrish, a singer/actress, is cast in the Broadway musical Tootsie playing the character Stiles actually played in the musical. This plot development allowed Stiles to recreate one of her numbers from the Broadway show on the TV series.
Discography Along with having performed on many different stages in various off-Broadway shows, Stiles has found the time to be involved in three different albums for three plays. Her first album recording was singing for the role of Joanne, for the musical, Vanities the Musical. Her second album recording was when she sang the character Nazirah for the musical, The Road to Qatar. Most recently, she can be heard on the album for the musical adaptation of Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach as the Spider. In 2016, she teamed up with Gary Lucas to record Gary Lucas' Fleischerei: Music from Max Fleischer Cartoons. In 2020, she released her first EP, You Can Ukulele With Me. On that album, Stiles shows her skill at playing the ukulele, an instrument she has been known to play: in one episode of Get Shorty, Stiles played the ukulele for two songs (one of which, "Simple Song of Love (The La La Song)", was performed for her show Squirrel Heart, and would show up in re-recorded form as the lead-off track from You Can Ukulele With Me); and she played it in the aforementioned Squirrel Heart show.
Aside from album recordings, Stiles and her friend Howie have been working on their sketches for their comedy channel on YouTube. The YouTube channel is called Sillyocity, and together, the two of them combine their ideas to make short comedic webisodes.
Theatre credits Year Production Role Venue Notes 2001 Titanic Kate Mullins Multiple venues Non-Equity tour 2002 The Wizard of Oz Dorothy Gale North Shore Music Theatre Regional2003 Grease Frenchy Paper Mill Playhouse Regional Summer Ensemble Musical Theatre Works Reading2005 Captain Louie Ensemble York Theatre Off-Broadway The Full Monty Estelle Genovese North Shore Music Theatre Regional2006 What a Glorious Feeling Performer Roundabout Theatre Studios Reading Doctor Dolittle Polynesia Multiple venues National tour rowspan="2" The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Marcy Park/Olive Ostrovsky/Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierre understudies Circle in the Square Theatre Broadway Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierre Multiple venues National tour 2007–2008 Avenue Q Kate Monster/Lucy the Slut John Golden Theatre Broadway 2009 Vanities, A New Musical Joanne Second Stage Theater Off-Broadway 2011 The Road to Qatar Nazirah York Theatre Company Off-Broadway 2011–2012 On a Clear Day You Can See Forever Muriel Bunson St. James Theatre Broadway 2014Hand to GodJessica Lucille Lortel Theatre Off-Broadway 2015–2016 Booth Theatre Broadway 2016 Do I Hear a Waltz? Giovanna New York City Center Concert 2018TootsieSandy Lester Cadillac Palace Theatre Regional 2019 Marquis Theatre Broadway 2023A Transparent MusicalSarah Pfefferman/Queerdo Mark Taper Forum Regional2026Iceboy!LambertGoodman TheatreChicago
Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 2018 Unsane Jill 2021 Here Today Sarah 2023 Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Jillian Robinson
Television Year Title Role Notes 2012-2013 Lab Rats Edie, White House representative Episodes: "Commando App", "Memory Wipe" 2016 The Blacklist Receptionist Episode: "Dr. Adrian Shaw: Conclusion" 2017 Superior Donuts Dana Recurring role 2017 I'm Dying Up Here Toni Luddy Episode: "Sugar and Spice" 2017–2019 Get Shorty Gladys 22 episodes 2017–2018 Sunny Day Lacey (voice) 3 episodes 2018 Half Life Patty Episode: "Pilot" 2018 My Astronaut Sarah Pevsner 3 episodes 2018–2022 Billions Bonnie Barella 25 episodes 2018 Dietland Suzy Episode: "Pilot" 2019 Steven Universe: The Movie Spinel (voice) Television film 2020 Steven Universe Future 2 episodes 2021 The Crew Beth Paige 10 episodes 2022 The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Angry Wife Episode: "Ethan... Esther... Chaim" 2024–present Hazbin Hotel Mimzy (voice) Episode: "Dad Beat Dad"
Awards and nominations Year Awards Category Work Result 2015 Tony AwardsBest Featured Actress in a Play Hand to God 2019 Clarence Derwent Awards Most Promising Female Tootsie Outer Critics Circle Awards Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical Tony Awards Best Featured Actress in a Musical Annie AwardsBest Voice Acting TV/MediaSteven Universe: The Movie
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