Sandy Faison

Sandy Faison is an American actress, singer, and acting teacher whose Broadway career spanned from 1977 to 1983.

Faison made her Broadway debut in 1977 playing Grace Farrell, the secretary to Daddy Warbucks, in Annie. She returned to Broadway in 1980 with Charlie and Algernon, followed by Is There Life After High School? in 1982. Her final Broadway credit came in 1983, when she joined You Can't Take It with You in the replacement role of Alice Sycamore.

Her screen work encompassed both film and television. On film, she appeared in The Sterile Cuckoo (1969) and All the Right Moves (1983). Her television work included recurring and regular roles across multiple series: she originated the role of Brandy Shellooe on the soap opera The Guiding Light before JoBeth Williams assumed the part, and also appeared on Another World and The Edge of Night. Faison held a recurring role as Molly's sister Mamie in The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd and was a regular cast member during the first season of Anything but Love. Guest appearances included Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Quantum Leap, The Wonder Years, Grace Under Fire, and Party of Five. In the 1989 television movie An Eight Is Enough Wedding, she portrayed Abby Bradford.

Following her performing career, Faison moved into education. She taught at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School for thirteen years, also serving as the school's assistant principal of theater during her final five years there. As of 2021, she teaches second-year acting and music students at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City, serves as artistic director for ArtsBridge Summer Musical Theater 2, and leads an annual workshop at London's Royal Academy of Music.