Maggie Ryan Sandford
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Contact Information
contact name: Maggie Ryan Sandford
email: m.r.sandford@gmail.com
Pseudonym: M. R. Sandford, Maggie Sandford
Related Organizations:
A.V. Club Twin Cities - www.avclub.com/twincities
A Prairie Home Companion - prairiehome.publicradio.org
Comedy Central - ccinsider.comedycentral.com
The Directors - www.thedirectors.us
Hmong Pages - www.hmongtimes.com
The Writer's Almanac - writersalmanac.publicradio.org
Experience
Freelance
Writing - Seattle/Saint Paul/New York
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Screenwriting - B. H. W. C. Association, Sketch Comedy
and Short Film (featured on NewYorkTimes.com); Exploratory
Gubernatorial Campaign, Steve Kelley; Snerts Entertainment
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Playwriting - Twin Cities Fringe
Festival
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Essay/Blog - Comedycentral.com;
OnlineAdventure.com; Mac Weekly, Macalester College
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Speech/Business writing - Exploratory
Gubernatorial Campaign, Steve Kelley; Fundraising correspondence, Minnesota
Medical Foundation at the University of Minnesota
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Comedy - ComedyCentral.com; B. H.
W. C. Association, Sketch Comedy and Short Film (featured on NewYorkTimes.com);
Ruminator Magazine; Winsome Duckling (2009)
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Fiction - MNArtists.org's
"ministories" feature: April 2008, January 2009; Indiana Review, online
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Articles - access+ENGAGE ejournal at MNArtists.org; OnlineAdventure.com; Major Gifts Report and Successful Fundraising - Stevenson Inc.; School for International
Training: Accra, Ghana; Co-authored
poster presented at the 2004 St. Croix River Research Rendezvous
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Review - Theatre, Art, Music,
Events: Mac Weekly, Macalester College
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Poetry - Poetry on the Buses,
Seattle; "Language of Hope" Series, Seattle Art Museum; Guest reader, Seattle
Poetry Festival
Media Production
A Prairie Home Companion (Prairie Home Productions and American Public Media): Aug 2009 - Present
Diners, Drive-Ins, Dives (Page Productions): Sept 2008 - March 2009
The Onion News Network: July 2007 - November 2007
Freelance Production Assistance, Various companies - New York, NY: September 2006 - December 2007
B.H.W.C. Association, Comedy and Film shorts: August 2006 - December 2007
Awards
Literary Death Match 100 Champion
Richard Hugo House Founders Award
"Language of Hope" Featured Poet, Seattle Art Museum
Floyd Schmoe Peace Scholarship
Exhibitions/Performance History
Readings:
Language of Hope Awards Ceremony poetry readings, 2001 - Seattle Art Museum
Seattle Poetry Festival, 2001
Ruminator Bookstore, March 2002
Eclipse Records, November 2002
mnLit reading, April 2008 - Ritz Theatre
mnLit reading, Oct 2008 - Ritz Theatre http://3minuteegg.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/ministories/
mnLit reading, Aug 2009 - Walker Art Center
Rock Star Storytellers regular guest
John Jodzio's If You Lived Here You'd Already Be Home Cavalcade of Stars!
Cadence Hip Hop Series, May 2010 - Guthrie Theater
Performance:
Sketch Comedy, 2006-2008 - Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater, People's Improv Theater, Rififi, Mo Pickens, Under St. Marks...
MN Fringe Festival, 2005 (Writer/Actor/Producer)
10 Minute Play Festival, 2009 - Bedlam Theater (Actor)
Artery 24, 2009 - Soap Factory (Writer/Actor)
Collections
mnLit April 2008
mnLit January 2009
Galleries
(Coming Soon!)
Publications
The A.V. Club, Twin Cities
ComedyCentral.com
Hmong Pages (forthcoming)
OnlineAdventure.com, and blog
Powder Keg Live!
Seattle Times
Stevenson Inc., various newletters
Biographical Information
Country of Citizenship:
United States
Birth Place:
Seattle
Birth Date:
June 10, 1983
Active Place:
Twin Cities / Brooklyn
Minnesota County:
Ramsey
Artist Information
Roles
Writer