@ 2 Paul Sand, Award winning actor shares his passion for theater in LA

PAUL SAND, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR  was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Santa Monica. Sand has had a long and impressive career on stage as well as in film and television. Among his long list of credits, he has performed with the Marcel Marceau company in Paris, and with Judy Garland in her classic,We’re a Couple of Swells. He later joined Second City Co. in Chicago, which opened on Broadway, and ran for a year. In 1966 he co-starred with Linda Lavin and Jo Ann Worley in the off- Broadway hit production The Mad Show, inspired by Mad Magazine.  In 1971 Paul won two Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Performances on Broadway in Story Theatre  and Metamorphosis. Jerome Robbins directed his first play, Loves From Work: At the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy. He received a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play for his work in Paul Sill’s Story Theatre. This lead to a guest-starring role of the tax-man - the boyfriend role in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, then as the star of the CBS sitcom,Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers. He has appeared on television and movies since the 1980’s, including The Hot Rock, The Main Event, Taxi, The X Files, and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Sand just founded his new independent theatre company: The Santa Monica Public Theatre