Sadie Spivey has been recognized for her diverse performance abilities as a vocal artist and as an actor. Whether it is creating new work or giving a unique voice to established repertoire, Sadie believes that stories help us feel seen and heard, fulfilling our innate desire to connect. Having extensive training in Fitzmaurice Voice, Meisner Technique, Shakespeare, modern dance, and movement, as well as on-camera and voice-over work, Sadie is interested in creating dynamic and authentic performances. This summer, Sadie returns to The Ohio Light Opera to sing Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance and Luisa in The Fantasticks. Sadie began the 2022 season singing the Vixen in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen with the Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program. In 2021, Sadie performed alongside Stephanie Blythe and members of the Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program in Songs From The Real World: The French Cabaret. The program explored the origins of French cabaret, a musical movement that emerged to explore a bohemian ideal, expressing social and political satire through song. Sadie was also featured as a soloist in Handel’s Messiah at the Fisher Center, in collaboration with The Orchestra Now. Sadie was named an Encouragement Award Winner of the 2020 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (Pittsburgh District). That same year, she received an Emerging Artist Award from the International Lotte Lenya Competition, a competition recognizing singer/actors who are dramatically and musically convincing in repertoire ranging from contemporary Broadway scores to opera and operetta. Sadie worked as a Young Artist at the Ohio Light Opera for the 2018 and 2019 summer seasons performing in twelve productions. She appeared as Little Red in Into The Woods, Sieglinda in Kern's Music in the Air, Anina in the American Premiere of Kalman’s The Devil’s Rider, and Leila in Iolanthe, and covered the role of Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance. A graduate of Penn State, Sadie received a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance as well as a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting. At Penn State, she appeared in more than a dozen productions, splitting her time equally between the theatrical and the operatic stage. Some of Sadie’s favorite credits include Frasquita in Carmen (cancelled due to COVID-19), Lucy in Menotti’s The Telephone, Fredrika (u/s Anne) in A Little Night Music, Medea in Argonautika, and Mayella (u/s Scout) in To Kill A Mockingbird. During her time at Penn State, Sadie also received an Erickson Discovery Grant, which allowed her to work closely with composer Scott Eggert on his song cycle Peacock Pie. Out of this collaboration has grown a new song cycle commission on settings from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. During the unconventional 2020 season, Sadie took part in Where The Good Songs Go, a new web series presenting virtual productions of rarely performed early works by musical theater’s founding composers and lyricists. The group premiered virtual productions of Jerome Kern’s Nobody Home, Rodgers and Hart’s Poor Little Ritz Girl, Gershwin’s A Dangerous Maid, and Sissle and Blake’s Elsie. Sadie is currently pursing a Master's in Vocal Arts at the Bard College-Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of Stephanie Blythe. Sadie is a student of Edith Bers.