About

Sadie Maguire is a 17-year-old senior musical theater and instrumental major at PiM Arts High School. Sadie is a singer, songwriter, and pianist, as well as an actor, director, and technical crew member. Sadie performs throughout the Twin Cities as a gigging musician, performing a variety of original music and covers based mainly in pop, indie, and rock styles. Past venues and events include the Home and Garden Show (Minneapolis Convention Center), Paisley Park, the Midtown Farmers' Market, Holidazzle, Mall of America, and more. As an actor, Sadie has recently performed in Singin' in the Rain, Theory of Relativity, and Mean Girls (PiM Arts High School), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Alice by Heart (Emerging Professionals Ensemble), and A Christmas Carol (Guthrie Theater). Sadie has also worked as a student director at PiM on their productions of Our Town and The Play That Goes Wrong and at Stages Theater on The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. At PiM, they have also sound designed, stage managed, and operated the light board for a variety of other productions and performances. 

As an artist, I love to create and perform a variety of different artistic products. I use songwriting, singing, and piano playing as both an emotional release and as a way to connect with others. As an actor and director, I believe that theater can have a huge impact on the world by presenting stories that can often get people of all types to understand perspectives that they might not otherwise. Because of this, I love being a part of the theater community in as many ways as I can. I believe any kind of art can create connection and ultimately, my main goal as an artist is to create work that relates to an audience and connects an audience to each other.

When creating and performing in theater, I participate both onstage and behind the scenes so as to take advantage of all the opportunities available. I love being on stage, portraying the character that tells the audience a story, but I also love to work behind the scenes, helping form what that character’s story looks like, and how the story will be told through technical design and execution. I also love to participate in theatrical projects that give me the chance to incorporate music, working in both my art forms at once. 

When writing music, I have found I write for a variety of different reasons. Sometimes, I start with a vocal melody and build from there, sometimes it’s a lyric, and sometimes I simply want to write a song so I sit down at the piano and start with a chord progression. Regardless of how I begin the process, all three of these elements eventually come together to build a full song. Once I have created this song, I love to perform it for others to find an audience that can connect to the story I am telling. I have felt a connection with many artists and their work and I am working towards being one of those artists for others someday.

It is an incredibly rewarding experience to get the chance to share my creations with others and see how they are affected. I want to do that for the rest of my life.

2025

-Semi-Finalist in the MN State Fair Amateur Talent Contest

-2nd Place in the Eden Prairie Sings Competition

-Superior THESPY Awards (Solo and Duo) at MN Thespian Conference

2024

-7th Place in MN Sings Competition

-2nd Place in the Eden Prairie Sings Competition

2023

-2nd Place in the Eden Prairie Sings Competition

-Semi-Finalist in the International Song of the Year Contest with "don't wanna know"

Coming soon...

-Musical influences: Reneé Rapp, Olivia Rodrigo, Fleetwood Mac, Prince, Sara Bareilles, Taylor Swift, Nirvana, Lana del Rey, Melt, and more​

-Regular performer at the Midtown Farmer's Market in Minneapolis during the 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 seasons

-8 years of piano and voice lessons at Blue Tree Music Education

-You can find Sadie's music on Spotify and many other streaming services!