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KJ Sanchez
theatre director, playwright, producer, educator
KJ at the MacDowell Residency
As an actor KJ performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and internationally including the Toga-Mura Festival in Japan and the IberoAmericano Festival in Bogota, Columbia. KJ is a former member of Anne Bogart’s SITI Company; she is the voice of many characters on the cartoons Dora the Explorer and Go Diego Go. KJ is a MacDowell Fellow, Fox Fellow, Douglass Wallop Fellow, and a recipient of the 2014 Rella Lossy Playwright Award. She is a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts/TCG Career Development Program, an Associate Artist with The Civilians, and a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect, and she has written a book titled, The Radical Act of Listening: Making Documentary and Investigative Theatre.
KJ is the founder and CEO of American Records, dedicated to making theatre that chronicles our time, theatre that serves as a bridge between people. As a director, she has worked across the U.S. and internationally with playwrights such as (select list) Octavio Solis, Karen Zacarias, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Martin Zimmerman, Kristoffer Diaz, and Darrah Cloud.
Her productions – as a director/playwright - have been seen at theaters including (select list) San Francisco’s ACT, The Guthrie Theatre, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, The Alley, Arizona Theatre Company, Berkeley Rep, Baltimore’s Center Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Playmakers Rep, Asolo Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Two River Theater Company, Frontera Rep, Round House, Studio Theatre in D.C., Cornerstone Theater Company and Off-Broadway at Urban Stages, HERE Arts Center and the Gene Frankel Theatre.