A very versatile a talented artist, with over 40 years experience in all aspects of the Theatre discipline…As an actor, Ms. McClain has guest starred or recurred in such diverse fare as Hart of Dixie, Ed, Third Watch, As The World Turns and Another World; Law and Order, Law and Order: SVU, LA Law, The Jury, Wonderland, City Guys, King, Criminal Justice, Third Watch, Strong Medicine, Related, Dirt, The Medium, Family Guy, The Cleveland Show, Grey’s Anatomy, The Last Tycoon, Craig of the Creek (recurring).
Theatre credits on and off Broadway: Intimate Apparel, Seven Guitars, Bubbling Brown Sugar, The Colored Museum, Pericles, Zooman and the Sign, For Colored Girls… Regional: Raisin in the Sun (Ovation nomination and LA Drama Critics Circle nomination for lead actor), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Look Homeward Angel, Oklahoma!, Queenie Pie, Stop-Kiss, Romeo and Juliet, All’s Well That Ends Well, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, From the Mississippi Delta, Joe Turners Come and Gone, Wedding Band (Ovation Award nomination), Porgy and Bess. She has directed or performed at Kennedy Center, The Shakespeare Theatre in D.C., Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Alliance Theatre, Alley Theatre, Philadelphia Drama Guild, Two River Theatre, Musical Theatre West, Syracuse Stage, McCarter Theatre, A.R.T., Spoleto Festival, New York Shakespeare Theatre, 2nd Stage, N.E.C., New Federal Theatre, Classic Theatre Company, Hudson Guild, Billie Holiday Theatre, Coconut Grove, Antaeus Theatre Company, A Noise Within.
Her directorial credits include Dancing Lessons at Ensemble Theatre Company in Santa Barabara, Crumbs from the Table of Joy at Pomona College, Bee-luther-hatchee @ CSU-Fullerton, and Sierra Madre Playhouse, The Colored Museum at CalLutheran University, Oh Freedom at Main St. Theatre in Rancho Cuchomongo,, Breath and Imagination at Virginia Stage and Colony Theatre, (numerous Ovation and NAACP Theatre nominations and awards); Other directorial credits: Prayerville, Intimate Apparel, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, The Fantasticks, In the Continuum, Spunk, Electra, The Women of Plums, Death of a Salesman, Antigone, Dark of the Moon, A Modest Proposal, Harriet’s Return, Flyin’ West and What I Learned in Paris, The Colored Museum and For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf.
A lifetime member of The Actors Studio. She is currently seeking her MFA at CSU Fullerton.
www.saundramcclain.com