Sandy Faison

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|name = Sandy Faison

|image = Scene from Annie 1977 2.JPG

|caption = In Annie (1977). Sandy Faison (left); Reid Shelton as Daddy Warbucks, Andrea McArdle in title role

|birth_name = Sandra Faison

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|birth_place = United States

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|occupation = Actress, singer; acting teacher

|years_active = 1977–present

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Sandra Faison is an American actress and singer. She became an acting teacher after her performing career.

Career

= Acting =

In 1977, she made her Broadway debut as Grace Farrell, secretary to Daddy Warbucks, in Annie. Additional theatre credits include Charlie and Algernon (1980),[http://www.playbill.com/production/charlie-and-algernon-helen-hayes-theatre-vault-0000004466 " Charlie and Algernon Broadway"] playbill (vault), accessed March 23, 2019 Is There Life After High School? (1982),[http://www.playbill.com/production/is-there-life-after-high-school-ethel-barrymore-theatre-vault-0000004318 " Is There Life After High School? Broadway"] playbill (vault), accessed March 23, 2019 and You Can't Take It with You (1983, replacement Alice Sycamore)[http://www.playbill.com/production/you-cant-take-it-with-you-plymouth-theatre-vault-0000009567 " You Can't Take It with You Broadway"] playbill (vault), accessed March 23, 2019

Faison's feature film credits include The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/16430/the-sterile-cuckoo The Sterile Cuckoo] tcm.com, accessed March 23, 2019 and All the Right Moves (1983).[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/67092/all-the-right-moves All the Right Moves] tcm.com, accessed March 23, 2019

On television she was featured in the soap operas The Guiding Light as the original Brandy Shellooe before actress JoBeth Williams took over the role, Another World, and The Edge of Night. She had a recurring role in The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd as Molly's sister Mamie, a regular role in the first season of Anything but Love, and made guest appearances on Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Quantum Leap, The Wonder Years, Grace Under Fire and Party of Five, among others[https://masterworksbroadway.com/artist/sandy-faison/ "Sandy Faison"] masterworksbroadway.com, accessed March 23, 2019

In the television movie An Eight Is Enough Wedding (1989), she played Abby Bradford.[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/463027/an-eight-is-enough-wedding An Eight Is Enough Wedding] tcm.com, accessed March 23, 2019

= Teaching =

After 13 years, Faison retired from teaching at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School.[https://alumniandfriends.org/fund/sandy-faison/ "Sandy Faison Fund"] alumniandfriends.org, accessed March 23, 2019 where she also served as LaGuardia's assistant principal of theater for her last five years.[https://www.laguardiahs.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=314386&type=d "Technical Theater. Sandy Faison, Assistant Principal"] laguardiahs.org, accessed March 23, 2019 {{As of|2021}}, she teaches an annual workshop at London's Royal Academy of Music,{{cite web |title=Sandy Faison, Neighborhood Playhouse |website=ArtsBridge |url=https://artsbridge.com/wp_super_faq/sandy-faison/ |access-date=2021-12-15}} is the artistic director for the ArtsBridge Summer Musical Theater 2, and teaches the second year acting and music students at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City.{{cite web |title=Sandy Faison ~ Meisner Acting Technique II & Music |website=Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre |url=https://neighborhoodplayhouse.org/about/faculty |access-date=2021-12-15}}