Sandra Delgado

Sandra Delgado is a Colombian-American writer, actor and producer with deep ties to the Chicago theater community. She writes plays for and about Chicagoans with a focus on Latine stories. She is best known for her play "La Havana Madrid." Her 2020 play "The Boys and the Nuns" centers on the fight for LGBTQ rights in 1980s Chicago. Delgado is a respected veteran of the stage, including work at Steppenwolf, the Goodman and Victory Gardens. She is a founding member of Collaboraction, a resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists and recently served on the Mayor’s Cultural Advisory Council. She’s been awarded a 2021 U.S. Artist Fellowship and is one of twenty Chicago women honored in Kerry James Marshall's public mural Rushmore on the facade of the Chicago Cultural Center. She was appointed to the Chicago Public Library Board of Directors in September 2021.