Sandie Eldridge

Actor, CAMP

An actor, director, and writer, Sandie Eldridge is a WAAPA acting graduate and has a Master of Arts (Practice) for Directing from CSU. She is one of the co-founders of Monkey Baa where she co-adapted over 20 works for the stage and directed, acted, and facilitated workshops around Australia and overseas.

As an actor, Sandie's theatre credits include:

• Last Train to Freo (Fremantle Theatre Company)
• All’s Well that Ends Well (Sport for Jove)
• Tattoo (Griffin)
• The Memory of Water and Blue Eyes & Heels (White Box and Darlinghurst Theatre Company)
• For the Love of Alma
• Hester and Anais Nin (Pascal Prod)
• The Women, Twelfth Night, and Summer of the 17th Doll (Railway Street Theatre Company)
• Jake & Pete (TOI)
• Blue Heart (Siren Theatre)
• Tom & Clem, Absent Friends and The Heiress (Marion St)

In 2017 she toured the USA with her own play, The Unknown Soldier.

Her film and TV credits include:

• The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race
• The Secrets She Keeps 2
• Rake
• Rescue Special Ops
• Children’s Hospital
• All Saints
• Spellbinder
• Sisterly Love
• A Fortunate Life

Her credits as a director include, for Monkey Baa:

• Possum Magic
• Goodbye Jamie Boyd
• The Prospectors
• I am Jack
• Hitler's Daughter
• Thursday’s Child (2007 and 2009 Helpmann Awards for Best Children's Presentation)

She has also directed Kindertransport and Maggie Stone (DTC); Caress Ache, Mill on The Floss, and The Grapes of Wrath (WAAPA); and for the ACO, How to Catch a Star and the 2022 Sydney Theatre Award-winning Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge.

Sandie has been a proud member of MEAA since 1983.