Sandra Laub has combined theater, education, and community outreach for over 35 years. A graduate of Northwestern University and the American Conservatory Theater, she is an award winning actor, a lead or ensemble member of dozens of productions, including musicals, classic and contemporary plays, and premieres of new work, including her own. She has appeared in a number of films, including winning Best Actor Idyllwild Film Fest 2025 in a featured role in Roger James Kuhn’s ‘Carbon Man’- a fictional film about the real urgency of climate change.

Off Broadway credits include Circle Rep, WPA, Dance Theater Workshop, Equity Library Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater, La Mama, and Joseph Papp’s Shakespeare In the Park (Richard III with Kevin Kline). 

Off-Off Broadway, Sandra starred in her own adaptation of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary (Wild Desires) and co-founded a theater company devoted to Shakespeare and Restoration Comedy(The Relapse, Venus and Adonis, A MIdsummer Night’s Dream). Regionally, she appeared at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Capitol Rep (Albany, NY), Wisdom Bridge (Chicago), Colorado Springs Performing Arts Center and Theater West (Los Angeles), among others in, among other titles:  Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (Maggie), Vanities, Gypsy, 110 In The Shade, Sideman, Candide, All My Sons.  Her latest performance (April 2025) was the titular role in Charles’ Busch’s “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife” at the Granite Theater in Westerly, RI.

Moving from NYC (where she taught acting at Eugene Lang College/New School For Social Research and at various acting studios) to Rhode Island, Sandra became an instructor at Brown University and at URI, teaching acting and voice and movement classes.  In Rhode Island she performed at Perishable Theater (Women’s Playwriting Festival) the Brown Summer Theater Festival (Last Night At Ballyhoo; As Bees In Honey Drown), The Gamm (Festen, The Grapes of Wrath, Betrayal), The Granite Theater (Lost In Yonkers), Courthouse for the Arts ( Best Actor award for The Graduate), and with The Island Theater Company, which she formed with URI colleagues to perform The Seagull, Dear Liar, Candida, and Mrs. Campbell! Mr. Shaw! –her own adaptation of the G.B Shaw-Campbell letters. 

 In 2013, she was tapped to perform the Tony award winning play, Golda’s Balcony. It had a well received run of 22 performances in its initial Rhode Island offering. In 2014 she performed the play at The Contemporary Theater in RI for a 3-week run. Since then and currently she performs Golda’s Balcony across the country.  

Sandra also tours her two-hander play, “Mrs. Campbell! Mr. Shaw.” and her adaptation of Nora Ephron’s Imaginary Friends.  Sandra was an adjunct professor of theater (acting, voice and movement) at both Brown University and University of RI for a total of 7 years (1996-2002). She was a certified teacher of English, Speech, Creative Writing, and Drama at Chariho Regional High School in Rhode Island for 21 years, where she also coached the Drama and  the Shakespeare Club. 

Sandra’s latest work is a solo play titled “Picking Up Stones: An American Jew Wakes To A Nightmare”, a response to 10.7.23.  It is an amalgam of her shock at that singular event and her journaling and research about the first 30 days afterward. The play’s multiple characters, Palestinian, Jewish, Israeli, Arab and American are all voiced by Sandra who tries to make sense of the horror, the seeming intractability, and the possibility for hope and peace in this region. She has won many accolades for performing her play, including the Artists For Artists Award at the Providence Fringe Festival. She takes her play to Israel in June, 2025, and to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August ‘25.  Sandra is a member of the Dramatists Guild.