Weaving together Jewish folk songs, original music, and storytelling, award-winning playwright Sarah Segal-Lazar’s latest work paints a deeply personal portrait of Jewish identity and inheritance. In 2018, Sarah travelled to her mother's homeland of Poland for the first time, joining the March of the Living with a group of young Canadian Jews, visiting concentration camps and retracing her ancestral path. That experience inspired the creation of this new work in development, combining her two great loves: theatre and music, to tell both her own story and the remarkable story of her family. The result is a moving, 50-minute one-woman show blending generations of stories and song.

Premiering in Australia before touring internationally.

About Sarah: Sarah Segal-Lazar is an award-winning Ashkenazi-Canadian singer-songwriter and playwright whose work bridges the worlds of music and theatre. Singing in five languages—including Hebrew and Yiddish—she blends contemporary folk with echoes of her Jewish heritage and Montreal roots. An Honours BFA graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Sarah has written, directed, and performed works across Canada and the U.S., with her theatre projects recognized by major Canadian institutions. Her short film Elvira is currently on the festival circuit. As a musician, Sarah’s latest album VALLEYS has earned international airplay, as well as a nomination for Folk Canada's 2024 Recording Artist of the Year. Whether sung or scripted, Sarah's art celebrates story, identity, and the connective power of performance.

(Fun fact: her grandmother's uncle moved from Poland to Australia in the late '40s and opened a lingerie factory!)

See more about her here: https://www.sarahsegalmusic.com

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