McClain
Actor, Author, Director, Artist
Saundra
"Under the sharp direction of Saundra McClain, a Broadway-caliber cast gifts us with a delightful journey..."
Santa Monica Mirror
" McClain’s pitch-perfect Lady Bracknell lays it on as thick as clotted cream, forcing the young ones to devise some desperate plots."
GoodTimes
"McClain's portrayal is rich in humor and humanity..."
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. Her soon to be released films are Boy Makes Girl, Aftershock and Starstruck. She is collaborating with Clinton Turner Davis on book, Career Paths of African American Directors: Pushing Boundaries for Routledge Publishing.
Proud Member of SDC, SAG-AFTRA, & AEA
Los Angeles Times
"The direction by Saundra McClain is as
subtle as a surgeon's scalpel..."
Sean McMullen, theatre critic
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"…priceless call-and-response graveyard banter with a homespun companion played by the endlessly resourceful Saundra McClain, who it turns out can do just about anything (see her Lady Bracknell in Earnest)."
Christina Waters, GoodTimes
Career Paths of African American Directors
Pushing Boundaries
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A collection of in-depth conversations/interviews focusing on the influences, aesthetic philosophies, challenges and biases, directorial styles, and artistic successes the selected directors have achieved in their careers. Routledge Publishing is offering 20% off of Career Paths of African American Directors. save big, now through July 31st, only through Routledge Publishing.
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