Over 40 years as a performing arts specialist, Ms. McClain has worked in all aspects of the theatre discipline, both as an actor and director, performing in numerous shows on and off Broadway, films, and several guest-starring & recurring roles on TV. As an actor and director, she has been nominated for several Ovation and NAACP Theatre Awards, in 2019 the LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Lead Actor in a Play. Yet she still finds time to develop two new musicals as well as a children's book and film series, "Peepo & the Magic Talisman."  She has taught/guest-directed at  Queens College, California Lutheran University, AMDA, AADA, Pomona College & California State University- Fullerton, and holds an MFA in Directing. Saundra most recently directed Spring Awakening, Cabaret. andThe Play That Goes Wrong, and performed in The Tempest at Antaeus Theatre Company. She starred in the recently released Boy Meets Girl, and her soon to be released films are Aftershock and Starstruck. She has recently collaborated with Clinton Turner Davis on their book, Career Paths of African American Directors: Pushing Boundaries for Routledge Publishing.