Sandra Hughes creates for the stage, television, film, radio, print and online media.  As a writer,  director, choreographer, and performer she combines  drama , mime and dance  with masks,  music and puppetry.  Her original works have toured to 33 states in the U.S. and 13 other countries. 

Sandra choreographed, directed and performed in Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale and Kabalevsky’s The Comedians conducted by Artistic Director Christopher Rex for the  Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival in Florida. She's also choreographed Mathias Bamert’s “Once Upon an Orchestra” for performances with the Cleveland Orchestra and the Akron Symphony. 

Sandra's  plays have been performed by invitation in Denmark  Northern Ireland,  Scotland and throughout the United States.  “A Mummers Tale of the Seasons”, inspired by traditional Irish folk theatre and Irish mythology, was  performed at the Aero International Mask Festival in Denmark. An excerpt of the performance of the play with an interview with Sandra aired on Canadian national television as part of the series The New Canoe. A performance of an excerpt from Sandra’s play  “Simple Gifts”, about Catherine Evans Whitener’s contribution at age 15 to the birth of the worldwide textile industry in Dalton, Georgia was  made possible through a partnership between the City of Dalton , Brookwood School and Alternate ROOTS. Her radio plays have received been broadcast on WABE Public Radio in Atlanta and KSFR Fine Arts Radio in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Sandra dedicates a substantial part of her career to the support of the creation of new plays. In area of leadership she's served on the board of directors of The Atlanta New Play Project and The Southeast Playwright’s Project. She was a founding playwright member of SEPP, a member of the Santa Fe Playwrights Lab – a project of the Santa Fe Theatre Company and co-founder of The Writer’s Gym inspired by the playwrighting techniques developed and taught by Maria Irene Fornes. Sandra's also directed new plays produced by Gateway Performance Productions written by Gary Carden, William A. Sessions and Julie Kearns. She currently offers playwrighting workshops for adults and youth.  

Sandra has taught for the theatre departments at Lake Erie College, Antioch College and the University of Akron. She is also  a residency, teaching and performing  artist for Young Audiences Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta and an Artist in Residence and Touring Artist for the Georgia Council for the Arts.

The Sandra L. Hughes Theatre Collection at the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute at Ohio State University  curated by Nena Couch documents Sandra’s professional theatre career and her contribution to emergence of the art of mime as a theatre form in the United States.

Sandra's articles have been published by the Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Atlanta Celtic Quarterly and the ezine Mythic Passages.

Awards and honors include:
“Bring Me Yellow Flowers” -  a tribute to the life and work of Mexican visual artist Frida Kahlo - at the American Film  Institute Video Festival in Los Angeles with nomination for the Robert Bennett Award.

Regional EMMY Award, Writer, "Outstanding Entertainment Program of the  Year”,  national distribution for Public Television.

First place,  Border Book Playwrighting Contest, “Frida – Diego and Me”, full production at the Desert Fest Play Festival.  

Nomination from the Georgia Council for the Arts to the Southern Arts Federation for her accomplishments in literary and theatre arts resulted in the award of an online profile at Southern Artistry  - a site  that features information about the work and careers of  "Outstanding Southern Artists". 

1st place, 2007 Earth Vision’s National  Nature writing contest, an article about the global plight of the honeybee, “Moved by the Bees”.

Grant Awards for  Playwriting: 
Georgia Council for the Arts
Fulton County Arts Council in Atlanta.   

Grant Awards for Professional Development:
Ford Foundation/Alternate ROOTS  

Notable Training and Influences:
Playwrighting:  Mark Medoff, August Wilson, Maria Irene Fornes.
Mime: Marcel Marceau and Juki Arkin
Japanese Noh Theatre Training: Richard Emmert and Akira Matsui
Dance: Valentina Litvinoff of Isadora Duncan’s Russian school
Voice: Arthur Lessac,
Spolin Improvisation: William Green from the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre
Acting:  Stella Adler, NYC
Acting & Directing Apprenticeship:  The Cleveland Play House, Ohio
Theatre Studies:  Ohio University 
Journalism: Jerome Schmeltzer.