Bio

Sarah Kolasky is an award-winning actor, writer, and producer from Toronto.

"...talented Kolasky is an actor to watch for." - The Toronto Star

Sarah's first feature film, Great Great Great, was a dark comedy in which she starred, as well as produced and co-wrote with Adam Garnet Jones. The pair received a 2018 Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay for Great Great Great, which premiered at the 2017 Canadian Film Fest and won Best Feature, Best Screenplay, and Best Performance in a Feature (for Sarah Kolasky). The Globe and Mail selected it as one of the Top 10 Canadian Films of 2017.

She produced and acted in the short drama LIAR, which premiered at the 2012 South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, TX. Other producing credits include the short films A Small Thing (TIFF ’08) and Cloudbreaker (TIFF ’06). Sarah is the former Chair of the Breakthroughs Film Festival, the only festival in Canada devoted exclusively to short films by emerging women and non-binary directors. She received a BFA in Film Studies from Ryerson University, and is an alumnus of the Toronto International Film Festival's Talent Lab.

Learn where you can watch Great Great Great here.