Sandra A. Daley-Sharif (she/her) is a Jamaican-American playwright, producer, and educator living in Savannah, where she is a tenured Professor of Dramatic Writing at SCAD University. She is a 2025–2028 Core Writer at the Playwrights' Center, an OBIE Award–winning producer, and a recipient of the Josephine Abady Award, both for her contributions to diversity in the American theater landscape. She is a co-founder of Harlem9, the theater collective behind the 48Hours in...™ festival series, and co-founder of Liberation Theatre Company. Sandra is the author of Write the Future: A Practical Guide to Building a Television Writing Career. She has over 30 years of experience across theater, television, fashion design, dance, and visual arts.

Her play JaRock Mash-Up, tracing her family's lineage from an Irish great-great-grandmother in 1884 Jamaica through three generations of Caribbean women, was workshopped at the Playwrights' Center. Her Ibsen adaptation Hedda and George is set in Maya Angelou's former Harlem brownstone. Other plays include the Sloan-commissioned Amma's Witand The Trial of Amos 'n' Andy (with Stephen Anderson). Two of her works appear on the Kilroys List: Straddling the Edge (Barbour Award finalist) and Les Fréres (Bay Area Playwrights Festival finalist, Eugene O'Neill semi-finalist). Her acting credits include Law & Order, Orange is the New Black, Madam Secretary, Blue Bloods, Dr. Death, and Sex and the City.

SELECTED WORK
-The Harder They Come by Suzan-Lori Parks;
The Public Theatre; Cultural Ambassador

-Death of Medea by Constance Strickland; Theatre Roscius

-Disruption by Andrew Stein

-Her Portmanteau by Mfoniso Udofia; directed by Laiona Michelle produced by George Street Playhouse (production)

-Ona, Washington, Lulu, George by David Morse

-We Are Proud to Present… by Jackie Sibblies Drury — Montclair State University, August 2020

-Skeleton Crew by Dominique Morisseau; Westport Country Playhouse