Author Event: Sara Cooper, "Ravenous"
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The Common Good is delighted to welcome multi-award-winning author Sara Cooper for a reading and signing of her debut work, Ravenous.
Breigh is a hot elder millennial who’s obsessed with the brands she is ambassading for. Her policy is YES, and her livestreams are viral. But she’s pregnant now, and her body’s changing. It’s not that she’s hungry. She’s definitely not depressed. She just sometimes eats boxes of makeup before passing out.
Daddy’s bought a brand-new home for Breigh and Baby, complete with a Greenguard Gold-certified, twice-imported velvet infant chaise—but is he cheating on her with a hotter, younger coworker? Breigh has to get Baby out before it ruins her. She has to create more and better content than the other Momfluencers. She has to unbox something new. She has to unbox … Baby! Baby approves of her seven-step marketing plan. Welcome to #LiveBirth.
Breigh’s increasingly unhinged life reflects her generation’s anxieties around psychological manipulation through social media platforms. Sara Cooper presents a wild debut novel in this incisive satire of consumerism, performative femininity, and social media.
About the author
Sara Cooper is a debut novelist and an award-winning playwright-lyricist. She lives in New York with her husband, John, and their son, Theo. Her major awards include the Richard Rodgers Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters (2022); ASCAP Foundation Lucille and Jack Yellen Award (2021); Grand Jury Prize, Barnstorm Media (2020); and Jonathan Larson Grant, American Theatre Wing (2014). Ravenous was a finalist for the 2025 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards.
Recent theatre writing highlights include Perpetual Sunshine & the Ghost Girls, developed with Paper Mill Playhouse (2025), University of Michigan (2024), Village Theatre (2023), National Alliance for Musical Theatre (2022), and Rhinebeck Writers Retreat (2021); Singularity, Purchase College grant (2024), Honorable Mention, Relentless Award (2024); HoT, developed with Goodspeed (2022), Johnny Mercer Foundation (2020), and New York Theatre Barn New (2020); The Memory Show, produced at LAMB Theatre (2022), New Bard, London (2016), Transport Group, The Duke on 42nd Street (2013), WaterGateMedia, Seoul (2012–2013), and Barrington Stage Company (2010), with development at NAMT (2010); Windows and Breakfast, produced by Lowbrow Opera Collective (2021, 2020); Elevator Heart, produced by Moxie Arts (2019), developed at USF (2018); Fault Lines, Kennedy Center, American Opera Initiative (2018); and Things I Left On Long Island, FringeNYC (2014), Overall Excellence Award: Playwriting (2014), TimeOut NY Critics’ Pick (2014). She has an MFA in Graduate Musical Theatre Writing from NYU and currently teaches at Purchase College.