Sandra Delgado
Writer, Performer, Producer | 2024 Platform Award Recipient
Sandra Delgado is a Colombian-Chicagoan theater artist who creates joyful spaces of connection for all. A born and bred Chicagoan, her work is often inspired by underknown Chicago histories that deserve wider recognition and center Latine lives. Hailed as “her own brand of triple threat” (New City Chicago), she is best known for La Havana Madrid, her hit play with music, originally produced by Teatro Vista in Chicago. Featured in the New York Times and CNN, the show enjoyed sold out runs at Steppenwolf and Goodman Theatre, in a co-production with her artistic homes, Teatro Vista and Collaboraction and most recently at South Coast Repertory in California.
A respected veteran of the stage, acting highlights include work at Steppenwolf, The Goodman Theatre, and The Public Theatre in New York. She is honored as one of twenty women of Chicago arts and culture in Kerry James Marshall’s Rushmore mural at the Chicago Cultural Center and her audioplay, “if you belong to me as I belong to you,” is on Audible as part of a collaboration with the Oscar winning film, “Women Talking.” Her new musical, “The Boys and the Nuns,” was developed with the Latiné Musical Theatre Lab in NY and CalState Fullerton in 2023. Awards include a United States Artist Fellowship, NALAC Grant, Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Literature, 3Arts Award, Joyce Award, TCG Resident Actor Fellowship. This summer, La Havana Madrid graces Pritzker Pavilion as part of Millennium Park’s 20th Anniversary Celebration and “The Sandra Delgado Experience,” her song and story project, which debuted at Joe’s Pub in NYC last year, returns in July.
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