Sarah Grace Stiles (born June 20, 1979^[1]) is an American singer and actress known for her work inOff-Broadway andBroadway theatre.

She performed the role of Kate Monster/Lucy the Slut inAvenue Q, and performed in the musicalVanities, in which she played the character of Joanne. She was nominated for theTony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play in 2015 for her performance inHand to God^[2] and theTony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical in 2019 for her performance inTootsie.^[3] She also voiced Spinel inSteven Universe: The Movie (2019), andSteven Universe Future (2020). She can also be heard as diva Emma Olivia inAs the Curtain Rises, an original Broadway soap opera from the Broadway Podcast Network.

Stiles was born on June 20, 1979, inMassachusetts and was later raised inStrafford, New Hampshire^[4] attending Strafford Elementary School. After middle school, Stiles began her high school career atCoe-Brown Northwood Academy in New Hampshire.

At the age of 12, Stiles started getting involved with theater productions inPortsmouth, New Hampshire. Her first role was the titular character inAnnie at the Seacoast Repertory Theater. As a teenager, Stiles played two other major roles while living in New Hampshire:Dorothy inThe Wizard of Oz, andCinderella inCinderella. Stiles loved the performing arts so much that she spent her summers working at thePrescott Park Arts Festival in Portsmouth.

Before she got involved with Broadway productions, she trained at theAmerican Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City. Stiles is known for her two roles in the Off-Broadway productionAvenue Q,the story of a college student who moves to New York City with big dreams but lives on Avenue Q and has very little money. Stiles plays Kate Monster and Lucy the Slut, who are twopuppets that she controls throughout the show.

After Stiles spent much of her time in the production ofAvenue Q, she later was offered the role of Joanne inVanities, a project that Stiles had been involved with for two years.Vanities was performed at thePasadena Playhouse inPasadena, California, but eventually moved toSecond Stage in New York. This role inVanities eventually led Stiles to be involved in recording an album for the songs.

She played the role ofLittle Red Riding Hood inStephen Sondheim andJames Lapine's musicalInto the Woods at theDelacorte Theater in New York as part ofShakespeare in the Park. She starred oppositeAcademy Award nomineeAmy Adams andTony Award winnersDonna Murphy andDenis O'Hare.

In 2017, Stiles appeared in theEpix television seriesGet Shorty.^[5] Stiles also appeared in the 2018 filmUnsane. Additionally in 2018, Stiles was cast in the recurring role of Axe Capital stock trader Bonnie Barella on the Showtime seriesBillions (season 3–6).

She appeared in thestage musical version of the filmTootsie beginning in September 2018, which ran at the Cadillac Palace Theatre in Chicago from Sept. 11 to Oct. 14, 2018. The musical opened on Broadway in April 2019. In the third season of the Epix television seriesGet Shorty, Stiles' character, Gladys Parrish, a singer/actress, is cast in the Broadway musicalTootsie playing the character Stiles actually played in the musical. This plot development allowed Stiles to recreate one of her numbers from the Broadway show on the TV series.

Stiles married her husband, Jeff, on October 18, 2020. They live in New York City with their dog, Patti.

Along with having performed on many different stages in various off-Broadway shows, Stiles has found the time to be involved in three different albums for three plays. Her first album recording was singing for the role of Joanne, for the musical,Vanities the Musical. Her second album recording was when she sang the character Nazirah for the musical,The Road to Qatar. Most recently, she can be heard on the album for the musical adaptation of Roald Dahl'sJames and the Giant Peach as the Spider. In 2016, she teamed up withGary Lucas to recordGary Lucas' Fleischerei: Music fromMax Fleischer Cartoons. In 2020, she released her first EP,You Can Ukulele With Me. On that album, Stiles shows her skill at playing the ukulele, an instrument she has been known to play: in one episode ofGet Shorty, Stiles played the ukulele for two songs (one of which, "Simple Song of Love (The La La Song)", was performed for her showSquirrel Heart, and would show up in re-recorded form as the lead-off track fromYou Can Ukulele With Me); and she played it in the aforementionedSquirrel Heart show.

Aside from album recordings, Stiles and her friend Howie have been working on their sketches for their comedy channel on YouTube. The YouTube channel is called Sillyocity, and together, the two of them combine their ideas to make short comedicwebisodes.

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