Sierra Edwards, known by friends, family, and much of Hollywood as Sarah, graduated pre-university from Metropolitan Arts Institute, where she excelled in performance arts. Sierra has since worked with The Groundling's and Jennifer Coolidge; show-runners Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady as an actress on "The Big Bang Theory"; Shana Goldberg-Meehan and Scott Silveri on "Joey"; and with excitingly more "Friends" writers, Ted Cohen and Andrew Reich for the CBS pilot, "If You Lived Here. . . ". Sierra was delighted to work with Jeff Goldblum, James Franco, Jim Parrack, Scott Cann, Jordana Brewster, Marshall Allman, Jamie Anne Allman, Robyn Cohen, Davey Franco, Robert Carnegie, Tracy Pellegrino, and Mark Pellegrino--the golden years!--at Playhouse West Repertory Theater Company. Sierra was a proud member of The Actor's Gang, located in Culver City and artistically directed by Tim Robbins. She fell in love with "The Gang" when she saw Brian Kimmet in Tim Robbin's adaptation of 1984. Sierra's civilly-minded spirit admired the vital work the company did with their "Prison Project" championed by Tim and also hugely driven by Sabra Williams. When Sierra is not acting, she can be found surrounded by books, making monkey faces, and alternating between cooking super-clean Mediterranean food and fat-laden southern comfort. She likes to think she's 50% Southern Belle, 50% Rock N' Roll. Sierra went to Santa Monica College and received her Associates in Government and the History of Media before transferring to the University of Southern California to work with/under as the dean of Cinema Writing, Jack Epps Jr. , T. V. writing queens, Pam Douglas and Georgia Jeffries, and the illustrious, Aaron Rashaan Thomas. One of the coolest things about Sierra is that her father, Mark Edwards, grew up with George Lucas, being cousins, living in Modesto, CA. Sierra is alllll about the middle Star Wars as those were the ones she got to go to the premier of while she was still a minor, which, is still some of the hi-lights of her life. That and getting to meet George at USC. She is truly thankful for all who give to the study and pursuit of Film, T. V. , Literature, and Liberal Arts. Sierra would not be where she is without those generous individuals. In creative writing, Sierra (as Sarah Edwards) was selected twice for T. C. Boyle's Advanced Fiction Workshop, was selected for a university-wide juried prize by Percival Everett, worked with and under the phenomenal Dana Johnson, and was honored to be able to complete her thesis cannon of short stories under the direction of Aimee Bender. Since graduating, Sarah has had several IP's optioned, including the hard-R comedy SCREWED about two people who eff so hard they switch bodies and DISSENT, about Sierra's idea of singularity in a totalitarian world-wide government. She was super-excited and proud to work on SAUDI GIRL REVOLUTION ((SGR) though, they were women. . . ). As the only female writer, is was incredible to hear she was the strongest on writing action scenes. Take that, "boy's club"! SGR was about Saudi Arabian Female Freedom Fighters. The episodes she was assigned to write are some of her proudest accomplishments. Sierra was commissioned to write a short and later, feature-treatment for QUETZALCOATL about Mayan revolution against Spanish imperialists. She liked to think of it as BRAVE HEART meets PAN'S LABYRINTH (at the very, very best). She wrote a web series called, HOT MESS, about a female, Indian American immigrant just trying to survive--and doing so with, at times, grace and very bad choices. As a Quaker, Sierra also wrote the web series, CALLED TO SPEAK about a Quaker Youth Minister, going through a divorce and finding herself in the extended form of others. She wrote a short, The Lord is With Thee, about a woman who has a BDSM relationship with her priest and Mother Lovers, about motherhood in all its incarnations.
