Jude Sandy is a Trinidad & Tobago-born, Philadelphia-based theater artist and Assistant Professor of Theater at Swarthmore College. Since 2016 he has been a member of Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, RI, where he has directed productions of August Wilson’s Gem of The Ocean and Radio Golf,  Marcus Gardley’s black odyssey, and choreographed for both plays and musicals. At Trinity Rep Jude has appeared in twelve productions, playing Othello in Othello, Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors, Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Asagai in A Raisin In The Sun, Meridian Henry In Blues For Mister Charlie, WIll Parker in Oklahoma!, and others. 

On Broadway, Jude puppeteered the title role in the original cast of the Tony Award-winning War Horse at Lincoln Center Theater, and appeared Off-Broadway at The Pearl, Barrow Street and HERE Arts. Regionally, he has movement- and associate-directed at Cleveland Play House and performed with Shakespeare Theatre Company, Guthrie Theater, The Williams Project (now The Feast) and Bread Loaf Theater Ensemble.

At Swarthmore, Jude teaches courses in acting and has directed productions of Bryna Turner's At The Wedding and Bertolt Brecht's & Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera. Courses include:

• Acting I: Play, Performance and Context (or Acting Is For Every Body)
• Acting II: Voice, Power, Character
• Production Ensemble
• Acting Capstone
• Special Project in Solo Performance

Jude is an alumnus of Brown/Trinity Rep Graduate Programs in Acting and Directing (MFA) and Brown University (AB, Africana Studies). He previously has been on the faculty and directed productions at Amherst College and Connecticut College, guest taught at Eugene O'Neill Center's National Theater Institute, and served as Associate Director of Middlebury College’s Beyond The Page applied theater program. 

In Philadelphia, Jude has directed Sylvia Khoury’s Selling Kabul for InterAct Theatre Company and is a co-creator of Denizen Arts Project, an African diaspora- and queer-inspired performance collaboration alongside his life partner, dance artist yaTande Whitney V. Hunter.  In 2022 Jude co-conceived, wrote, directed and performed in Denizen'sWalk The (pink) Elephant, a participatory dance-theater ritual, reckoning with histories of loss and survival in Black arts and queer communities through the first waves of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Walk The (pink) Elephant was awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Independence Blue Cross (IBX), Temple University and the JKW Family Foundation, and was presented as the culmination of a DanceVisions residency at Philadelphia's The Performance Garage. 

Jude is currently working on his first commission as a playwright for Trinity Rep, and in February 2026 will appear in the title role of Tyler Dobrowsky's Shakespeare adaptation, Caesar, at Philadelphia Theatre Company. www.judesandy.com