Jude Sandy is a director, actor, movement artist and teacher, born in Trinidad & Tobago and based in Philadelphia, PA.
Raised in the bustle of a tropical melting-pot culture, he grew up singing Calypso, folk and choral music, participating in diverse cultural and religious festivals, and masquerading in Trinidad's epic annual Carnival. Before heading to college, he spent three years as a local newspaper reporter chronicling Trinidad's vibrant arts scene.
Jude studied first at Morehouse College and Towson University, and helped found Oakland School for the Arts in Oakland, CA before graduating from Brown University with an AB in Africana Studies and an emphasis in Theatre Arts. Later, he returned to earn an MFA from the Brown/Trinity Rep Graduate Programs in Acting and Directing.
In his evolving professional life, Jude has collaborated on and off-broadway and regionally, in productions at Lincoln Center Theater, Barrow Street Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Guthrie Theater, Cleveland Play House, The Williams Project and since 2016 as an acting company member and director at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, RI. At Trinity Rep, Jude has directed acclaimed productions of August Wilson's Gem Of The Ocean, Radio Golf, and Marcus Gardley's black odyssey. He has also appeared in principal roles in eleven Trinity Rep productions, playing Othello in Othello, Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors and Scrooge in A Christmas Carol.
Jude has been a member of the movement faculty at Brown/Trinity, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theater at Connecticutt College, Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater and Dance at Amherst College, and has guest taught at National Theater Institute at Eugene O'Neill Center, Boston University, Mount Holyoke College, Berklee College of Music and others. He is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater at Swarthmore College and Lead Faculty Artist with Beyond The Page at Middlebury College. He is an alumnus of American Dance Festival and American Dance Legacy Initiative's Dancing Legacy.
In 2016 Jude co-founded Denizen Arts Project, an African diaspora-inspired, LGBTQ+-informed performance collaboration with his partner, dance artist and scholar, Dr. yaTande Whitney Hunter. In 2022 he co-conceived, directed and performed in Denizen's Philadelphia/world premiere of Walk The (pink) Elephant, a participatory dance-theater ritual, reckoning with histories of loss and survival in Black arts and queer communities through the first waves of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Walk The (pink) Elephant was awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Independence Blue Cross (IBX), Temple University and the JKW Family Foundation.
Jude's work is in gratitude to the mentors and teachers who have guided and inspired his evolving artistry and citizenship, and to the cherished colleagues who make him proud to be a member of our creative communities. Special thanks to: Peter London, Julie Strandberg, Yin Mei, Loni Berry, Peter Blood, Lewis Gordon, Elmo-Terry Morgan, Karen Allen-Baxter, Paget Henry, Carolyn Adams, Laura Bennett, Michelle Bach-Coulibaly, Lowry Marshall, Brian Reeder, Annamaura Silverblatt, Jeffery Bullock, Pamela Pietro, Daryl Foster, Elisa Clark, Danny Grossman, Lacina Coulibaly, Hentyle Yapp, Ruth Andrien, Tracy Inman, Brian McEleney, Stephen Berenson, Thom Jones, Laura Kepley, Stephen Buescher, Laura Muñoz, Ken Washington, Marcela Lorca, Andrew Wade, Marianne Elliott, Mervyn Millar, Lizan Mitchell, Curt Columbus, Joe Wilson Jr., Mia Ellis, Rebecca Gibel, Rachael Warren, Tyler Dobrowsky, April Brown, Jackie Davis, Ricardo Pitts-Wiley, Michael Evora, Cindy Rosenthal, Ken Prestininzi, Melissa Kievman, Craig Maravich, Carmen Morgan, Annie Scurria, Kym Moore, Anika Duke, Katy Pfaffl.
Raised in the bustle of a tropical melting-pot culture, he grew up singing Calypso, folk and choral music, participating in diverse cultural and religious festivals, and masquerading in Trinidad's epic annual Carnival. Before heading to college, he spent three years as a local newspaper reporter chronicling Trinidad's vibrant arts scene.
Jude studied first at Morehouse College and Towson University, and helped found Oakland School for the Arts in Oakland, CA before graduating from Brown University with an AB in Africana Studies and an emphasis in Theatre Arts. Later, he returned to earn an MFA from the Brown/Trinity Rep Graduate Programs in Acting and Directing.
In his evolving professional life, Jude has collaborated on and off-broadway and regionally, in productions at Lincoln Center Theater, Barrow Street Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Guthrie Theater, Cleveland Play House, The Williams Project and since 2016 as an acting company member and director at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, RI. At Trinity Rep, Jude has directed acclaimed productions of August Wilson's Gem Of The Ocean, Radio Golf, and Marcus Gardley's black odyssey. He has also appeared in principal roles in eleven Trinity Rep productions, playing Othello in Othello, Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors and Scrooge in A Christmas Carol.
Jude has been a member of the movement faculty at Brown/Trinity, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theater at Connecticutt College, Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater and Dance at Amherst College, and has guest taught at National Theater Institute at Eugene O'Neill Center, Boston University, Mount Holyoke College, Berklee College of Music and others. He is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater at Swarthmore College and Lead Faculty Artist with Beyond The Page at Middlebury College. He is an alumnus of American Dance Festival and American Dance Legacy Initiative's Dancing Legacy.
In 2016 Jude co-founded Denizen Arts Project, an African diaspora-inspired, LGBTQ+-informed performance collaboration with his partner, dance artist and scholar, Dr. yaTande Whitney Hunter. In 2022 he co-conceived, directed and performed in Denizen's Philadelphia/world premiere of Walk The (pink) Elephant, a participatory dance-theater ritual, reckoning with histories of loss and survival in Black arts and queer communities through the first waves of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Walk The (pink) Elephant was awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Independence Blue Cross (IBX), Temple University and the JKW Family Foundation.
Jude's work is in gratitude to the mentors and teachers who have guided and inspired his evolving artistry and citizenship, and to the cherished colleagues who make him proud to be a member of our creative communities. Special thanks to: Peter London, Julie Strandberg, Yin Mei, Loni Berry, Peter Blood, Lewis Gordon, Elmo-Terry Morgan, Karen Allen-Baxter, Paget Henry, Carolyn Adams, Laura Bennett, Michelle Bach-Coulibaly, Lowry Marshall, Brian Reeder, Annamaura Silverblatt, Jeffery Bullock, Pamela Pietro, Daryl Foster, Elisa Clark, Danny Grossman, Lacina Coulibaly, Hentyle Yapp, Ruth Andrien, Tracy Inman, Brian McEleney, Stephen Berenson, Thom Jones, Laura Kepley, Stephen Buescher, Laura Muñoz, Ken Washington, Marcela Lorca, Andrew Wade, Marianne Elliott, Mervyn Millar, Lizan Mitchell, Curt Columbus, Joe Wilson Jr., Mia Ellis, Rebecca Gibel, Rachael Warren, Tyler Dobrowsky, April Brown, Jackie Davis, Ricardo Pitts-Wiley, Michael Evora, Cindy Rosenthal, Ken Prestininzi, Melissa Kievman, Craig Maravich, Carmen Morgan, Annie Scurria, Kym Moore, Anika Duke, Katy Pfaffl.
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