MEET SANDRA NEACE – PLAYWRIGHT
THE SIDHE (coming to GLM Feb. 13 – Mar. 1)
Sandra Brunell Neace (Writer/Actor/Director) received her B.A. in Theater from The University of California at Riverside and her M.F.A., in acting, from The Actor’s Studio Drama School in New York. While in New York Sandra performed in Danny and the Deep Blue Sea at The Actors Studio. In November of 2023, Sandra received her MFA in Creative Writing, with an emphasis on Playwriting, from Spalding University. Sandra’s play The Medea Project, originally commissioned, and produced by Bruka Theatre in 2011, was accepted into the 2012 NYC International Fringe Festival. In September of 2013 Sandra’s original play, Parly Girl, performed
at the San Francisco Fringe Festival. Sandra worked with VSA, Bruka Theatre and The Kennedy Center, in 2014, on The Playwright Discovery Program. Sandra is an advocate of social theater and is known in our community for both writing and directing plays of social relevance.
In August of 2017 she directed The Mountaintop, by Katori Hall, at Good Luck Macbeth Theater. Her original plays, Malvolio or What You Will… A Transgender Story, was produced by Bruka Theatre in 2016 and A Taco Truck on Every Corner… Or Dreaming in English was produced by Reno Little Theater in October of 2017. A Taco Truck on Every Corner… Or Dreaming in English was performed on the festival circuit internationally at The Prague Fringe Festival in May of 2018. Neace directed Monessen Falls and The Colony at Good Luck Macbeth as part of The New Works Initiative. Sandra is currently Co-Director of GLM’s New Works Initiative and an Assistant Teaching Professor at UNR.
