Sara Bynoe hosting Teen Angst Night at the Fox Cabaret. Photo by Kathryn Mussallem.

Sara Bynoe (pronounced By-no, the e is silent) acts, writes, hosts, produces live events, and likes to dance to early 90s dance music.

Sara trained as an actor at Studio 58 and she has a Master’s Degree in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths, University of London .

You might have heard about her because in 2000 she created the website www.TeenAngstPoetry.com: a comedic database of horrible poems people wrote when they were teenagers. The endeavor spun into hosting Teen Angst Nights where brave adults share their embarrassing teenage poetry, journals, songs, letters and more. Then she edited an anthology Teen Angst: A Celebration of REALLY BAD Poetry published by St. Martin’s Press, 2005.

Teen Angst Night has been called ‘Bloody Hilarious’ (ION Magazine) and the book was nominated for a New York Library Association Books of Summer award. Teen Angst Night has taken Sara to the UK for the Latitude Festival, to the USA to perform at Bumbershoot and was also featured at the High Performance Rodeo and the Uno Festival. 

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Sara loves to dance and brought Dance Dance Party Party to Vancouver. She was Den Mother for the local Chapter from 2008-2014.

In June of 2010 Sara created Say Wha?! Readings of Deliciously Rotten Writing. This is an alternative comedy show where  performers (sometimes comedians, improvisers, actors, writers and local personalities) read from the very worst books they can find. Say Wha?! has been featured in the Courier, WE, CBC Radio, in the Vancouver Comedy Festival, Vancouver International Poetry Festival, the Olio Festival and All Jane No Dick comedy festival.

One of her claims to fame that she’s most proud of is being one of three (or so) people to triple threat (win, judge, and host) at Literary Death Match. 

You might have seen Sara on stages and in cabarets around Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary, Seattle, Portland, Edinburgh, and London. You also might have seen her face on your TV from time to time in commercials, on a show, or perhaps you’ve seen her name in the credits as a Story Producer.

She likes to put her performing, writing, and producing skills to work to make this world a little bit more fun. 

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