Sarah Taylor Ellis is a composer and teaching artist based in Berlin. Her work empowers female voices and blurs the boundaries among musical theater, art song, and opera. Her latest compositions include Hamlet for young audiences (The National Theatre), These Girls Have Demons (in development with Pittsburgh CLO), The Trojan Women (recipient of a 2019 OPERA America Discovery Grant), and an upcoming Instagram opera. Her book Doing the Time Warp: Strange Temporalities and Musical Theatre will be published with Methuen Drama in autumn 2021.