meet sarah carson
my journey as an actor…
...officially began in June of 2013 when I enrolled in an acting class. Several years earlier I realized that I was close to the age my mother died, and I started to ask myself what would I want to do with the rest of my life I was not doing now. Up to that time, I had been an executive, and then the owner of my own business, and, oh yes, had a private investigators license in New York and California.
That summer I was invited to speak at a local alumnae event on career choices, since I was one of the first women graduated by the Harvard Graduate School of Business and the first Bryn Mawr (my college) graduate ever to attend. During the networking prior to the talks, a woman approached me and introduced herself as an actor. “You should become an actor,” she said. “They like your look, and, in your age bracket, there is not the competition as in younger age brackets.”
Her remarks were funny at the time. I come from a home where I would have gotten a warmer reception to the announcement that I was going into prostitution. However, in the months that followed, I could not get her comments out of my head. The creative activities I had pursued prior to becoming a business woman (18 years of training on the piano and song writing) where I had originally thought to return to in my final phase of life seemed like “lonely” pursuits, and God knows, my life choices have made me a loner a great deal of the time.
Since starting down the acting path in 2013, I have executed the full check list of steps to becoming a working actor: dramatic scene study,, comedic acting study, audition training, improvisation training, fabulous head shots, demo reels for comedy and drama, an agent and a manager, writing and producing my own project to become SAG eligible and creating projects in which I can showcase my acting ability. This last project led to a television pilot that has been accepted into 23 film festivals and won recognition in most.
Acting has been an exciting and fulfilling and fun ride even as it has been challenging how to fit it into the life I already had before taking up this pursuit. I work it pretty hard, as I don’t know how much time I have left. (I am a lady of some maturity as you can gather from my pictures.) I also am so inspired by the lovely young actors I am now privileged to meet. How much worldly success I have pursuing this craft is not the point of this endeavor for me. The joy is in the doing of it.
Life Sources Informing Roles
✧ One of the first women to obtain MBAs from Harvard Business School
✧ Asst. to Secretary for International Security, U.S. DOD
✧ Harvard Business School Faculty
✧ Private Investigator and Certified Fraud Examiner
✧ Grain Farmer
✧ SVP at Major U.S. Bank
✧ Yoga Instructor
✧ Culinary Artist