Sandra Delgado

Sandra Delgado (Playwright) is a Colombian-Chicagoan writer, performer and producer. Hailed as “her own brand of triple threat” (Newcity), she writes plays inspired by underknown Chicago histories centering Latine lives. She is best known as the creator and star of La Havana Madrid, her smash hit play with music, originally produced by Teatro Vista with runs at Steppenwolf and Goodman theatres, in a co-production with Collaboraction at both The Den and at Pritzker Pavilion as part of Millennium Park’s 20th Anniversary Celebration, as well as productions at South Coast Repertory and New Village Arts. Delgado is also a respected veteran of the stage, with a career spanning more than two decades. In addition to her work at artistic homes Collaboraction and Teatro Vista, as an actress, she has been seen on stages across Chicago and the country including Goodman, Northlight, Lookingglass, Victory Gardens, and About Face. Highlights include the titular role in La Havana Madrid, La Ruta at Steppenwolf, and starring off-Broadway as Jocasta in the Public Theatre’s production of Oedipus el Rey. Her NALAC award-winning spiritual-cabaret-meets-dance party, The Sandra Delgado Experience, has played all over Chicago and at the Public Theatre’s iconic Joe’s Pub. Delgado was recently awarded the inaugural Platform Award from the Walder Foundation, named a Hall of Famer in Newcity‘s Players of Chicago Theatre, awarded a United States Artists Fellowship, and serves on the board of the Chicago Public Library. She is also an Illinois Arts Council Fellow in Literature, a recipient of the 3Arts Award, the Joyce Award, the  Theater Communications Group (TCG) Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship in the Extraordinary Potential Category, a three-time Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special 
 Events grantee, a 3Arts 3AP Project Grantee, and received the 2017 Latina Professional of the Year Award from the Chicago Latino Network. Delgado is one of the 20 women of Chicago arts and culture honored in Kerry James Marshall’s mural “Rushmore” on the facade of the Chicago Cultural Center and her audio play, if you belong to me as I belong to you, is streaming on Audible as part of a collaboration with the Oscar-nominated film, Women Talking. She is currently developing The Boys and the Nuns, a new musical inspired by the true-life alliance between LGBTQ activists and Catholic Sisters in 1980s Chicago; LIVE.LOVE.NOW., a solo show exploring death, life and love; and Crying Hispanic Woman, a book of essays about motherhood, being the daughter of immigrants and a life in the performing arts. Catch Delgado this fall on TV in a recurring role on Power Book IV: Force on Starz. For more, visit sandradelgado.net or @yosoysandradelgado on Instagram.