Sandra Delgado

Sandra Delgado is a Colombian-Chicagoan writer, performer and producer who creates joyful spaces of connection for all. Hailed as “her own brand of triple threat” (New City Chicago), 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, which enjoyed sold-out runs with Teatro Vista at Steppenwolf and Goodman Theatre, and in a co-production with Teatro Vista and Collaboraction. Featured in the New York Times and CNN and jump started by a 3AP campaign, La Havana Madrid made its west coast debut at South Coast Repertory and was a featured performance celebrating Millennium Park’s 20th anniversary. Up next is the San Diego premiere at New Village Arts.

Sandra is also a respected veteran of the stage, with a career spanning over two decades. In addition to her work at artistic homes, Collaboraction and Teatro Vista, she has been seen on stages across Chicago including The Goodman Theatre, Northlight, Lookingglass Theatre, Victory Gardens and About Face. Recent highlights include the titular role in La Havana Madrid, La Ruta at Steppenwolf and starring off-Broadway in the Public Theatre’s production of Oedipus el Rey as Jocasta. Her 3AP funded and NALAC award-winning song and story project, The Sandra Delgado Experience, has played all over Chicago and at the Public Theatre’s iconic Joe’s Pub in New York.

Sandra was recently awarded the inaugural Platform Award from the Walder Foundation, named #11 in the Top 50 Players of Chicago Theatre by New City Chicago, awarded a 2021 United States Artists Fellowship, and served on the City of Chicago’s Cultural Advisory Council (2019-2021). She currently serves on the board of the Chicago Public Library and is a resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists. Sandra 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. Ms. Delgado is one of the twenty women of Chicago arts and culture honored in Kerry James Marshall's mural Rushmore on the facade of the Chicago Cultural Center and her audioplay, if you belong to me as I belong to you, is currently streaming on Audible as part of a collaboration with the Oscar-nominated film, Women Talking. She is currently developing her new musical exploring Chicago history titled The Boys and the Nuns with composer Michael McBride and a solo show exploring death, life and love. Her spiritual cabaret meets dance party, The Sandra Delgado Experience, played in Chicago earlier this summer and returns to New York next year.