Sandi Carroll is an actor, writer, director and educator. As an actor, she has appeared on Broadway in Irena’s Vow, with film credits including Rabbit Hole (starring Nicole Kidman), The Adjustment Bureau (w/ Matt Damon), Steven Wright’s One Soldier (Independent Film Channel), Brad Anderson’s The Darien Gap (IFP, Sundance) and Next Stop Wonderland (Miramax, Sundance), Orphan, and Starving Artists. Sandi has also written and performed several of her own shows including Defiant After Sleep, The Second Hand Circus, and Faux: An Auto-Spy-Ography, based on her experiences as an undercover private investigator in Chinatown. Other favorite theater credits include Hecuba in The Greeks (M.E.T.), Unbound (Prospect Theater Co.), directed by Davis McCallum and Count Down (Bank Street.). Sandi is co-founder of and performer in the comedy group Logic Limited, LTD., where she has created and performed Famous!, Schaden, Freude, & You: A Self-Help Seminar, and TiVo la Resistance! which has toured England, New York and the East Coast. As an educator she has taught acting at NYU, Emerson College, and University of Virginia as well as movement for The Shakespeare Lab at The Public Theater. She has worked as a teaching artist with Theatre for A New Audience and Theatre Development Fund. Sandi served as the Artistic Director of The Mud/Bone Collective for 3 years and is also on The Moth Advisory Committee. Sandi has a BFA in acting from Boston University.
THE LATEST
Download The Moth podcast to hear Sandi’s true story, “I Was a Spy in Chinatown!”
WHAT THE CRITICS SAY
“Sandi Carroll has a heart-wrenching cameo as the gentile wife of a Jewish refugee [in Irena’s Vow].” –Backstage
“Sandi Carroll is wonderful in a small role played memorably and beautifully.” –Extracriticum
“Sandi Carroll (Hecuba)…keeps it simple and trusts the text, which in turn rewards her with credibility—no small thing in the heightened world of Greek tragedy.” –Village Voice
“Sandi Carroll is ruthless and commanding with her grief as Hecuba.“ –offoffonline.com
“Carroll strikes the perfect balance of optimism, intimidation, and despair [in Count Down].” –offoffonline.com
“Carroll [is] a terrific actress whom I peg for future stardom.” –Austin Chronicle
