Summary
Sandra Brunell Neace (writer/actor/director) received her B.A. in theater from The University of California at Riverside and her MFA from The Actor's Studio Drama School in New York. While in New York, Neace performed in Danny and the Deep Blue Sea at The Actors Studio. Neace’s play The Medea Project, originally commissioned and produced by Bruka Theatre in 2011, was accepted into the 2012 NYC International Fringe Festival. In 2012, Neace was commissioned by the Sierra Arts Foundation to write a Readers Theater Art Box, Duck Feet, addressing the epidemic of bullying in today's society. In September of 2013 Neace’s original play, Parly Girl, performed at the San Francisco Fringe Festival. Neace worked with VSA, Bruka Theatre and The Kennedy Center in 2014, on The Playwright Discovery Program. Neace 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. In 2019 Neace directed Monessen Falls at Good Luck Macbeth and will be directing The Colony at GLM in August of 2020. Neace is currently the new works initiative director at Good Luck Macbeth Theater and an assistant teaching professor at the University of ÁùºÏ±¦µä, Reno. Some of her directing credits include: The Medea Project, How I Learned to Drive, Doubt, Cinders, Fifty Shades of Bea, Five Lesbians Eating a Quiche, Malvolio or What You Will….A Transgender Story, The Mountaintop and Oleanna. Neace will be attending Spalding University’s low residency MFA program in Fall of 2020.
Education
- MFA, acting, The Newschool University - Actor's Studio
- B.A., theatre, University of California at Riverside