Sarah Silverman is a two-time Emmy Award-winning comedian, actress, writer, and producer. With more than three decades in the entertainment industry and a steadfast refusal to be boxed in, she has also found success as a New York Times bestselling author, playwright, and host of the critically acclaimed Sarah Silverman Podcast.

As a keynote speaker, Silverman brings to the stage lively and heartfelt conversations on her career in comedy, Jewish identity, grief, and building connection between divided communities. Masterfully interweaving the lighthearted with the profound, she leaves women’s organizations, Jewish groups, and nonprofit audiences entertained and with a deeper understanding of themselves and those around them.

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A natural-born comic, Sarah Silverman has always been able to find humor in the darkest places. After losing both parents just days apart, she funneled her grief into a cathartic, laugh-out-loud celebration of their vibrant lives in her 2025 Netflix comedy special PostMortem, which earned Primetime Emmy, Golden Globe, Critics Choice, and Grammy nominations. Similarly, she turned her struggles with wetting the bed well into her teen years into the New York Times bestselling memoir The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee. She adapted the book for the stage, resulting in an off-Broadway musical with a sold-out run at Atlantic Theatre Company in 2022 and a remount at DC’s Arena Stage in 2025.

Facing adversity as one of few Jewish people in her New Hampshire hometown, Silverman is committed to creating opportunities to understand people different than her. She hosted the Emmy and Writers Guild-nominated Hulu series, I Love You, America, which she deemed Mister Rogers for adults. Across 21 episodes, Silverman sat down with people whose values she disagreed with and sought connection on a human level through humor and curiosity. She carries the lessons learned through this experience into her everyday life, choosing to lead with compassion and humility instead of judgement and rage.

In addition to these landmark projects, Silverman appeared in Netflix’s Oscar-nominated Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro, where she portrayed Bernstein’s sister Shirley. She also executive produced the short film Jack and Sam, which follows two Holocaust survivors who were miraculously reunited after 80 years, and are now spending the precious time they have left rekindling their friendship and educating others about the dangers of hatred.

Silverman’s past comedy specials include Someone You Love, A Speck of Dust, and We Are Miracles, for which she earned an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special. As an actress, she has starred in Battle of the Sexes, I Smile Back, Bob's Burgers, the Wreck-It Ralph franchise, Masters of Sex, Monk, The School of Rock, and the Emmy-nominated The Sarah Silverman Program, among many others.

The family comedian since age three, Sarah Silverman attended New York University for one year before dropping out to pursue her comedy dreams. In 1993 she joined Saturday Night Live as a writer and feature performer and has not stopped working since.