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Sands Hall

SANDS HALL  (1952 - )

 Nationality:    USA
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Sands Hall was born in 1952 in La Jolla, California, and spent her childhood in Squaw Valley, in the Sierra NevadA. She received her Ba in Drama from the University of California, Irvine, and attended the American Conservatory Theatre's advanced Training Program in San Francisco. She has worked as an actor with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, the Old Globe Theatre, Iowa Summer Repertory Theatre, the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, and the Foothill Theatre Company, among others. Her work as a director includes Marat/Sade, To Kill a Mockingbird, an adaptation, with Diane Fetterly, of Little Women and Love's Labour's Lost. She spent four years in New York City, and ten in Los Angeles, performing in large and small theatres; in the soap opera The Guiding Light; in various guest-starring roles on television; and small roles in various films. Her job experience during these years is the usual hodge-podge, including Girl-Friday temp spots and working as a script editor for various production companies; mostly she made her living as a waitress. In 1989, she went back to school, earning an MFa in Fiction from the Iowa Writers Workshop and, two years later, a second MFa in Theatre arts, also from the University of IowA. She works as a free-lance editor, and teaches for the University of California, Davis Extension Programs; for the Iowa Summer Writing Festival; for the Squaw Valley Community of Writers; as well as conducting individual seminars and workshops. She lives in the historic mining town of Nevada City in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, where she is an affiliate artist with the Foothill Theatre Company, for which she acts, writes, and directs.

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 Fair Use         Little Women

Fair Use

Synopsis:
an exploration of the controversy surrounding Wallace Stegner's use of Mary Hallock Foote's life and writing in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, angle of Repose

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1st Produced:
Foothill Theatre Company, Nevada City, Ca    2001

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Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Little Women

Synopsis:
Sands Hall's script covers more of the book than most other theatrical and film versions, but even though it crams several decades and a host of characters into two and a half hours of theatre, the production is surprisingly coherent and clear. The show radiates an atmosphere of comfy domesticity, but also offers a savvy appraisal of the daily struggles of family life, including unexpected illness and economic travail. It's honest and yet also affectionate, and very attractive combination. - Boston Globe

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novel by Louisa May Alcott. Adapted by Sands Hall with Dianne Fetterly

1st Produced:
Foothill Theatre Company, Nevada City, Ca    1999

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  8            Other:  -

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