Sandra A. Daley-Sharif (she/her) is an Afro-Caribbean writer living in Savannah where she is currently Professor of Dramatic Writing at SCAD University. She is a Josephine Abady Award recipient and an OBIE Award-winning producer, both for her contribution of diversity to the American theatre landscape. She is the Producing Artistic Director of Liberation Theatre Company in NYC. She has produced many projects, across disciplines over the years. She is a founding member of HARLEM9, a group of producers coming together to explore the past, present, and future of theater. Sandra has a commendable resume of over 25 years in theater, film, and television.

Sandra completed and had a reading of her Ibsen inspired play Hedda and George with The Road Theatre. The Fire This Time presented a reading of her full-length play Hedda: A Portrait of a (Young) Woman and a production of her short play Anonymous, which was also produced by the EstroGenius Festival. Sandra’s play Straddling the Edge is on The Kilroy List, a Barbour Award finalist, and was workshopped at the cell theatre, directed by Kira Simring. Les Fréres is a Bay Area Playwrights Festival finalist, also on the Kilroy List, and a Eugene O’Neill semi-finalist.

She will have a reading of her new play Amma’s Wit, an EST/Sloan commission at EST’s First Light Festival in June. Blacklist had this to say about her new play The Trial of Amos ’n’ Andy, “The premise is ingenious as it explores the African American experience with stereotypical media, making it a story that spans generations”. Sandra also has several historical pieces that she has written and shopping for Television.

SELECTED WORK
-The Harder They Come by Suzan-Lori Parks;
The Public Theatre; Cultural Ambassador

-Death of Medea by Constance Strickland; Theatre Roscius

-Disruption by Andrew Stein

-Her Portmanteau by Mfoniso Udofia; directed by Laiona Michelle produced by George Street Playhouse (production)

-Ona, Washington, Lulu, George by David Morse

-We Are Proud to Present… by Jackie Sibblies Drury — Montclair State University, August 2020

-Skeleton Crew by Dominique Morisseau; Westport Country Playhouse