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sarah jae @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

i cannot believe they let barbra streisand talk about the way we were for five minutes on the broadcast tonight but it was for me

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sarah jae @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

i keep seeing this Us Weekly clip of Milo Ventimiglia and Arielle Kebbel promoting their new movie by reading "their only scene together" from Gilmore Girls on camera. except that scene is AI-hallucinated slop and does not appear in the show. i wrote about it here:

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that Gilmore Girls Jess x Lindsay scene doesn't exist

at least not the way Milo Ventimiglia and Ariel Kebbel talk about it in press

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sarah jae @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

i have finished a draft of my gay beatles fan romantic comedy play and i would love for you to read it! DM me for a PDF if you don't have access to NPX :) newplayexchange.org/script/32616...

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B.C. Wallin @bcwallin.com · 26/02/2026

Sarah Jae is one of several talented writers on the project helping break down a single film, one perspective at a time. By focusing just on performance, we have the opportunity to understand and appreciate the film on a whole new level

As Jobs, Michael Fassbender is always playing high status, and he is, most of the time, raising self to lower scene partner. Like a king. Mere mortals are the ones who oscillate between presumed authority and supplication, changing the way they interact with people to suit what they need to get out of conversations. As genius creator-god, Jobs never stoops, never spooks, and never allows his colleagues, friends, or family to believe he even has a low status mode.

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The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 26/02/2026

The first book dedicated to Danny Boyle's #SteveJobs has been published and we're pleased to exclusively premiere an essay. Read Sarah Jae Leiber in praise of the performances of the ensemble, from STEVE JOBS MONOGRAPH, edited by @bcwallin.com:

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The Performances of Steve Jobs

Enjoying much-deserved appreciation for his formally bold return to the 28 Days Later franchise, Danny Boyle also had another reason to celebrate last year: the 10th anniversary of Steve Jobs, his Aar...

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B.C. Wallin @bcwallin.com · 26/02/2026

Read @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social’s incredible essay about performing status and wanting your Computer Dad to notice you, an excerpt from STEVE JOBS MONOGRAPH

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sarah jae @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

happy 20th anniversary to high school musical, i wrote about why i think zac efron is the millennial john travolta and how changing attitudes on masculinity informed the directions of their careers sarahjae.substack.com/p/t-as-in-tr...

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T as in Travolta

on Zac Efron, John Travolta, and The American Boy Onscreen

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Jewish Women's Archive @jwaonline.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

"Oklahoma Samovar has many high points stymied by the lower-energy, confusingly-placed low points that plague its second act, especially. Perhaps a 90-minute version of this play, played straight through, would be more focused and dramatically successful" @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social: buff.ly/KXBstn5

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B.C. Wallin @bcwallin.com · 23/10/2025

Some incredible writing is in this book including by (those on this platform) @honorszombie.bsky.social, @dagscott.bsky.social, @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social, @filmsonwax.bsky.social, and @aeneas-nin.bsky.social. With performers like this, it was a pleasure to play the orchestra

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B.C. Wallin @bcwallin.com · 23/10/2025

Some personal news 📚 10 years ago today, Steve Jobs (2015) was released. This year, I am launching a book: a work of 8 writers, analyzing it piece by piece, to appreciate the film as greater than the sum of its parts. Sign up is now open to find out when you can own a copy of STEVE JOBS MONOGRAPH.

STEVE JOBS MONOGRAPH

B.C. Wallin on Production
Aashima Rawal on Jobs
Kat Trout-Baron on Sorkin
Scout Tafoya on Boyle
Devan Scott on Camera
Sarah Jae Leiber on Performance
Charlie Brigden on Music
Alexander B. Joy on Edit

Coming Soon

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Jewish Women's Archive @jwaonline.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

JWA sat down with playwright and JWA contributing writer @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social to discuss her upcoming play, PLEASE LAUGH: buff.ly/VNrgL2n Her first full-length play, PLEASE LAUGH, will open at The Tank NYC on Oct. 24, with additional shows on Oct. 25 and 30.

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7 Questions for Playwright Sarah Jae Leiber | Jewish Women's Archive

JWA sat down with playwright and JWA contributing writer, Sarah Jae Leiber, to discuss her upcoming play, PLEASE LAUGH.

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Jewish Women's Archive @jwaonline.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

"In this play, men are a non-entity—a taste of their own medicine with regard to the way matriarchs are sidelined in the Torah." A TheaterLab through Sep 28, The Matriarchs imagines a matriarchal Judaism:

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"The Matriarchs" Review | Jewish Women's Archive

The Matriarchs imagines a universe where life’s unfairest moments can be made more tolerable through friendship, conversation, and understanding.

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mirandakate.bsky.social @mirandakate.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

#TheaterBSKY check out this review from @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social and then see this extraordinary play!!

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Help On The Way Podcast @helponthewaypod.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

For my substack this week, I wrote about why it’s still exciting to hear the Grateful Dead on FOX Sports after all these years open.substack.com/pub/thejunkm...

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Did Anybody Else Hear “Saint of Circumstance” During the Giants Game??

Why It's Exciting to Hear the Grateful Dead on FOX Sports

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sarah jae @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Wilburys

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sarah jae @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

don’t worry about whether or not i am reading daphne/niles fanfiction

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sarah jae @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

genuinely enjoyed the miranda story in the AJLT season premiere

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sarah jae @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

i saw barry manilow on his farewell tour tonight and i'm going to end up writing about it

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sarah jae @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

leaving myself notes while playwriting

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sarah jae @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

my partner comes to passover seders to celebrate my heritage and tonight i am in line at the port-a-potties at set break of a really great grateful dead cover band concert at the stone pony summer stage to celebrate my’s partner heritage

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sarah jae @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

as this man embarks on a "woe is me no one likes me i deserve to be a movie star" tour think we should all remember that his "vaccine skepticism" manifested as lying about being friends with gavin creel and trying to draw an evil connection between getting the COVID vaccine and dying from cancer!

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sarah jae @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

niles in a yarmulke niles in a yarmulke niles in a yarmulke

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sarah jae @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

the pope shouldn’t be some guy who went to villanova and the president of israel shouldn’t be some guy who went to cheltenham

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sarah jae @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

jack is gigging right now and is currently vamping through a guitar solo because he’s distracted by the immunity challenge on survivor on the bar tv

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sarah jae @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

i wrote a little bit about constantly thinking baby billy is about to die this entire season of the righteous gemstones

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baby billy keeps standing in doorways

a short dispatch on the penultimate righteous gemstones

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sarah jae @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

get tickets to serials to see my delusional beatles fan play tickets.thetanknyc.org/EventAvailab...

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sarah jae @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

the étoile premiere is not great but i like the mean ballerina and the punky mary tyler moore needle drop. Classic Amy

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sarah jae @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

watched the gyllenhaal/mcdonald broadway actors on actors

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sarah jae @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

i know there's a new amy sherman-palladino show available to watch right now. it looms

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sarah jae @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

patti lupone giggling and kicking her heels together while george clooney compliments her and humbles himself about singing in their actors on actors interview... we come to this place for magic

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B.C. Wallin @bcwallin.com · 22/04/2025

CALL FOR PITCHES STEVE JOBS MONOGRAPH is an upcoming publication on the 2015 film Steve Jobs, recognizing that to appreciate a work as more than the sum of its parts, one must first understand the parts. $100 per piece. Click the link to pitch: forms.gle/rKpVpMPLky5y... #filmsky

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sarah jae @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

could not be more excited to be writing for @serialsnyc.bsky.social in may !!! ✨✨✨

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Broad Sound @broadsoundmag.com · 15/04/2025

“American presidents show up in strange and silly ways all over the history of American musical theatre. It’s one of the ways we can wrestle with the anxiety of being subjects of an empire.” @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social broadsoundmag.com/2025/03/04/u...

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Unworthy of Your Love (Sarah Jae Leiber)

Photo courtesy White House Photo Office Five months before massive scrutiny around his mental competence led to Joe Biden dropping out of the 2024 presidential race, Reuters reported that the oldes…

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sarah jae @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

didn’t get the only job i’ve felt passionate about in my year and change of unemployment so here’s some soup i made

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sarah jae @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

finally watched AMERICAN VANDAL and i think they should do a ten-year reunion series/film next year

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Alex Halpern @halpernalex.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

This is not about protecting Jews, and as Jews it is our responsibility to call out this performative fascism for what it is.

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sarah jae @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

need more bad art written by good HBO characters

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sarah jae @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

i think when i am financially able to go to exposure therapy for my OCD i am going to make part of it watching great medical dramas because currently watching anything where anyone has Health makes me spiral. like i'll finally watch ER and the episode of 90210 i had to skip about breast cancer

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sarah jae @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

i have written more in the last 72 hours than i have in the last 6 months

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sarah jae @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

was truly horrified a few weeks ago to see my dad and hear him say "you know that's not happening, right?" re: mass deportations like....... sorry?

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sarah jae @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

partner’s play advertised in times square 🥲🩷

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sarah jae @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

had an important interview today for a job that would be the coolest thing in the world if you are a praying person or a good-energy-in-the-universe person i could use all the help i can get

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sarah jae @sarahjaeleiber.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

i am going to see lady gaga almost exactly 15 years to the day i first saw her!!!!!

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