Sandy Shinner is the Associate Artistic Director at Victory Gardens where she has directed over 100 plays including The Long Awaited, The Value of Names, Sidney Bechet Killed a Man, Before My Eyes, View Of the Dome, Bluff, The Glamour House, Battle of the Bands, and Ariadne’s™ Thread; as well as Winter and Fossils with Tony Award-winning actress Julie Harris. She has worked extensively in professional as well as academic theater.