Andy Sandberg

Andy Sandberg is an American director, writer, actor, and Tony Award winning producer. A 2006 graduate of Yale College, he is best known as a producer of the Broadway (2009) and West End (2010) revivals of the musical Hair.

Early years

Sandberg began acting in school productions as a child.^[1] He graduated from the Browning School in 2001 and Yale College in 2005 with a B.A. in English (Writing Concentration) and Theater Studies. While at Yale, Sandberg performed with and served as the business manager for the Whiffenpoofs^[2] and the Yale Alley Cats.^[3] At Yale, he performed in and/or directed over 30 productions including Side Show, Parade, The Laramie Project, Songs for a New World, The Last Five Years and The Goat or Who is Sylvia?^{[citation needed]}

Actor and director

As an actor, Sandberg appeared as Jimmy opposite Lea Michele in the 2006 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) production of Hot and Sweet.^[4] Other roles have included Huck in Big River and Sam in Fully Committed. He also appeared in the film The Battle of Pussy Willow Creek.^{[citation needed]}

Sandberg directed Bernice Bobs Her Mullet in 2007 (NYMF),^[5] R.R.R.E.D. in 2009 (NYMF)^[6] and "Eli’s Comin’ to Broadway," a BC/EFA benefit hosted by Nathan Lane (Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center), as well as two Sing for Hope benefits, featuring Dick Cavett, Michael Cerveris and Richard Kind.^[7] He has also directed workshops and readings of such works as Garbo & Me, by Joanne Lessner and Joshua Rosenblum (2009).^[8] In 2007, Sandberg assisted Hal Prince on the Broadway production of LoveMusik (SDC Fellowship),^[3] and he served as the Associate Director to Sheryl Kaller on Christopher Durang and Peter Melnick’s Adrift in Macao at Primary Stages.^[9]

Producer

Sandberg was one of the producers of the Broadway and West End revival of Hair (2009),^[9] which won Tony and Drama Desk awards, among others.^[10] In the fall of 2009, Sandberg partnered with Daryl Roth to produce the New York premiere of Vigil, starring Malcolm Gets and Helen Stenborg.^[11] In the spring of 2010, Sandberg was one of the lead producers of Paradise Found, a new musical co-directed by Hal Prince and Susan Stroman, produced at London's Menier Chocolate Factory and starring Mandy Patinkin.^[12] Off-Broadway, he was a producer of Love, Loss, and What I Wore, by Nora and Delia Ephron (2010),^[1] and A Perfect Future, a new play by David Hay (2011).^[13] He also produced a reading of Operation Epsilon, a new play by Alan Brody.^[14]

Andy is currently represented on Broadway as a producer of the Tony-nominated revival of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, starring James Earl Jones, Angela Lansbury, Candice Bergen, Eric McCormack, and John Larroquette.^[15]

Andy will both direct and produce the new musical The Last Smoker in America, which will begin performances on July 11, 2012 at the Westside Theatre in New York.^[16]

In 2010, he produced and directed a Columbus, Ohio production of The Last Smoker in America, a new musical by Bill Russell and Peter Melnick,^[17] which will open in New York in the Summer of 2012.^[7]

Sandberg sits on the Alumni Board of the Yale Dramatic Association, and the Whiffenpoof Alumni Association.^[18]

References

External links

• Official Site