Sarah Katz
she/her
Sarah Katz
European American
Straight (Heterosexual)
Cis
Affiliations
Freelance Solidarity Project National Writers Union Steering Committee, Producers Guild of America, Writers Guild of America-East, Video Consortium, Coalition of Documentary Workers, Former Docs In Progress Board MemberLinks to Work
Bio
Sarah Katz is a Producer, Archivist, Writer, and Videographer who has spent the last twenty-three years immersed in a broadcast and multimedia career. She has made circuits around the east coast’s vibrant production scene earning dozens of credits on non-fiction series and one-offs for ESPN/Disney+, HBO, Prime, Netflix, A+E, PBS, National Geographic Television, The Great Courses, and others. In April, 2026 she concluded work with Toronto-based Bright North Studios on ON THE EDGE: WORLD CUP SKI RACING, a five-part documentary series that will premiered on ESPN/Disney+.
Since 2023 Sarah has been an active labor organizer for gig and media workers. She serves on the Freelance Solidarity Project National Writers Union Steering Committee and in the Non-fiction Organizing Committee of the Writers Guild of America-East.
Since 2016 Sarah has traveled the U.S. as a contract producer with the Foreign Press Center, Bureau of Global Affairs, Department of State. She produces news stories about American policy with foreign journalists as part of the Media Co-Op program. She has produced over three hundred interviews with the FBI, the Pentagon, Indo-Pacific Command Headquarters in Hawaii, former Vice-President Al Gore, anti-corruption lawyers, Muslim American religious leaders, professors, automotive innovators, renewable energy experts, members of the tech and start-up industries, Republican politicians, and local government leaders.
Sarah is a Docs In Progress Teaching Artist and a former Docs In Progress board member. As a board member she launched the Documentary Inspiration Awards celebrating the work of Oscar winning Director Marshall Curry and Editor Matthew Hamachek. She holds a Master of Fine Art in Film from American University for which she received the Guy P. Gannett journalism scholarship from the Maine Community Foundation. Finally, she has an undergraduate degree in French literature and spent a year volunteering in Zimbabwe.


