Biography and Notes (further contributions welcome) :
Sands Hall was born in 1952 in La Jolla, California, and spent her childhood in Squaw Valley, in the Sierra Nevada. She received her BA in Drama from the University of California, Irvine, and attended the American Conservatory Theatre's Advanced Training Program in San Francisco. She has worked as an actor with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, the Old Globe Theatre, Iowa Summer Repertory Theatre, the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, and the Foothill Theatre Company, among others. Her work as a director includes Marat/Sade, To Kill a Mockingbird, an adaptation, with Diane Fetterly, of Little Women and Love's Labour's Lost. She spent four years in New York City, and ten in Los Angeles, performing in large and small theatres; in the soap opera The Guiding Light; in various guest-starring roles on television; and small roles in various films. Her job experience during these years is the usual hodge-podge, including Girl-Friday temp spots and working as a script editor for various production companies; mostly she made her living as a waitress. In 1989, she went back to school, earning an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers Workshop and, two years later, a second MFA in Theatre Arts, also from the University of Iowa. She works as a free-lance editor, and teaches for the University of California, Davis Extension Programs; for the Iowa Summer Writing Festival; for the Squaw Valley Community of Writers; as well as conducting individual seminars and workshops. She lives in the historic mining town of Nevada City in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, where she is an Affiliate Artist with the Foothill Theatre Company, for which she acts, writes, and directs.
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