Monica Sanborn (she/her) is a performer and interdisciplinary artist working across stop-motion animation, performance, sculpture, and film. Her work explores the performativity of the body as a living archive and its relationship to time. Informed by art theory, mythology, psychoanalysis, and somatic research, Monica’s focus has most recently been on how everyday objects can become active participants in emotional and narrative space. Using found materials, inherited objects, and hand-built sets, she works through tactile, frame-by-frame processes that reveal vulnerability, transformation, and repair. Her projects often merge physical environments with inner emotional landscapes, creating animated worlds and performances that examine passage of time, memory, and death. She is a company member at Theater Mitu and Mercury Store.

She is a graduate of UCLA’s professional program for Screenwriting and the Atlantic Acting School. Monica is also a NYSCA artists grant alum.