Sarah Mullins

Instructor: Sarah Mullins

Workshop: Start with a Bang, and Send ‘em Home Singing!

Sarah Mullins is a musical improviser, drummer, and classical percussionist. She got into musical improv as a drummer while living in New York City, when she just kept showing up to play at shows because no one told her to stop. She played with the best musical improv groups in town: Baby Wants Candy, Shamilton (with a performance at The Kennedy Center in February 2020!) Your Love Our Musical, and Vern. She’s also played several shows with Offbook the Musical Improv Podcast, including their biggest show yet, right here at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto! After years of backing the best musical improvisers NYC has to offer, she finally took the full curriculum of musical improv classes at Magnet Theater, studying with the legendary Frank Spitznagel, Michael Lutton, Cheryl Horne, and Nikita Burdein. Sarah was a member of NYC’s one and only bluegrass musical improv group, The Wayfaring Strangers, playing bass and being ridiculous with a wonderful group of folks. She additionally trained at Upright Citizens Brigade, Magnet Theater, The Peoples’ Improv Theater, and Brooklyn Comedy Collective in character comedy, sketch writing, and non-musical improv with Jon Bander, Jamie Linn Watson, Pat Swearingen, and Armando Diaz. Sarah also does character bits, which tend to be music related, and debuted her solo character show, “People Playing Drums Good,” at The PIT’S 10th Annual Solocom Festival.

Outside of improv, Sarah performs as a classical percussionist and rock drummer, and will sing backing vocals while drumming when asked nicely. She also teaches group music classes and private drum and percussion lessons, and is on the percussion faculty at the Oscar Peterson School of Music at The Royal Conservatory in Toronto.