Division of Performing Arts

Sarah Belfrage Honerman

Assistant Professor

Email: sarah.honerman@minotstateu.edu

BSEd - English Education, Northern State University
MFA - Theatre Direction, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Sarah Belfrage Honerman is the Director of Theatre at Minot State University. Belfrage Honerman grew up in the Midwest, originally from Sioux Falls, SD. Her youth was spent in a variety of ways, but none as significantly as her time in a darkened theatre. From watching her father play President Franklin Roosevelt to playing roles such as Milady in The Three Musketeers and the Princess of France in William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labors Lost, Belfrage Honerman has cultivated a diverse background and love of the art.

As a veteran educator, with over a decade of experience in the classroom and working in the theatre, Belfrage Honerman has developed specialized interests in the field. She has built and grown an award winning high school theatre department. As a graduate student at Minnesota State University, Mankato (MNSU), she learned the craft of intimacy education and choreography. She has been hired to provide master classes and choreography for varying schools and productions. This work and her continued development of innovative education led to Belfrage Honerman being awarded as a Leader of the Pack from Northern State University and a Woman of Courage and Vision from the MNSU President’s Commission on the Status of Women. She is also a proud associate member of the Society of Directors and Choreographers union, a distinction that she earned as the Region V 2021 SDC Fellow from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Belfrage Honerman’s interest and engagement in learning more about intimacy education led to her being awarded the first ever Intimacy Education Fellowship from Theatrical Intimacy Education.

Belfrage Honerman looks forward to growing and developing the theatre program at Minot State University. When she’s not busy working on the stage, she’ll be found with a good book or playing with her two wonderful children.