Sandy Rustin

Sandy Rustin is an actress, playwright, and mom. Her musical, RATED P … FOR PARENTHOOD (co-written with Dan Lipton & David Rossmer) opened to critical acclaim Off-Broadway at the Westside Theatre and was subsequently optioned for television development by ABC Studios and Kelly Ripa & Mark Consuelos. Her full length comedy, THE COTTAGE, (a 2014 Reva Shiner Comedy Award Finalist) opened at the Astoria Performing Arts Center in 2013 and transferred to Queens Theatre in the Park in November 2014. The play made its regional debut at Theatre Aspen in the summer of 2014 (and played at The Americana Theatre in Plymouth, MA and The Actors’ Theatre of Phoenix in Phoenix, AZ). Last summer THE COTTAGE played at The Engeman Theatre in Northport, Long Island and is currently under option for an upcoming commercial production in New York. Her new play, STRUCK was selected as part of NJ Repertory’s 2015 reading series, and will have its world premiere at NJ REP in June/July 2016. Sandy recently guest starred on Comedy Central’s, Inside Amy Schumer and regularly appears at New York’s The Upright Citizen’s Brigade in “Gravid Water” (named “Best ImprovShow” by Time Out NY). She is the Founding Co-Artistic Director of Midtown Direct Rep, an advocate for CowdenFoundation.org and makes a delicious gluten free/dairy free lasagna that her children will actually eat. Sandy is represented by Max Grossman at Abrams Artists and Matthew Lefferts at FWR&V. www.sandyrustin.com