| Sanda Valls |
"If Margaret Cho and George Lopez had a love
child, it would be Sandra Valls!"
Georgia Ragsdale, comic
child, it would be Sandra Valls!"
Georgia Ragsdale, comic
Sandra Valls is a brash, high energy,
outrageously funny, in-your-face Latina comi -
and then some! Her comedy career began just
after an
ex-lover broke up with her then signed her up
for comedy classes as a consolation
prize. (That’s no joke!) An expert at “making
lemonade”, Sandra quickly learned to use the
stage to motivate, provoke, entertain, and…oh
yes…above all, make audiences LAUGH THEIR
@#$% OFF!
Sandra performs all over the country and at
local comedy clubs in Los Angeles including the
world-famous Laugh Factory, The Comedy
Store, and
The Hollywood Improv. Oh - and they simply
adore her in the UK where she cracked
them up at London's Comedy Camp. They’re
still gasping for air (and, no, it’s not because
the Brits smoke 10 packs of cigarettes a day).
Her television credits include Starz Network,
BET’s ComicView, Galavision’s Que Locos, Mun2
Loco Comedy Jam, SiTV’s Latino Laugh Festival,
Funny is Funny, Inside Joke, and, more
recently, HBO Latino original programming
“Habla”.
(Uh…that means, “talk” in Spanish. The ‘H’ is
silent.)
Sandra’s honest, explosive comic flair, original
writing talents, and her bi-lingual proficiency,
have opened the door to such gigs as joining
the comedy writing team of Nickelodeon’s
smash hit, Taina; writer, producer, and on-air
personality on Off The Roof, an international
show on Mun2 Television, as well as producing
and writing for SiTV networks. GLAAD
has honored her work at Mun2 with a Special
Recognition Award for her ground breaking
achievements on behalf of the gay and lesbian
community.
But the story begins much earlier in a little
town called Scottsbluff, Nebraska (yes, you
read it right) when Sandra was born into a
Mexican
family (what’s a Mexican doing in a red state?),
which quickly moved to Mexico where
Sandra spent her formative years and then, at
age 6, subsequently, made the “big move” to
America (for the record, there was no
swimming involved) and then settled in Laredo,
Texas (yes, the very one made famous by that
annoying song). Sandra attended Catholic
school but experienced a very difficult first day
of school as she didn’t speak one word of
English
(que?) and the nuns would charge 5 cents for
every Spanish word spoken. (dios mio!)
Needless to say, she never had lunch money
throughout the first grade. As the years
passed by, the only way Sandra coped with
Catholic school was acting a fool, playing in a
garage band, and the assurance that, every
now and then, a strong gust of wind would
come along and blow the girls’ blue plaid skirts
up to the heavens. (Thank God for uniforms.)
Sandra attended the University of Texas at
Austin where she studied acting and starred in
numerous musical productions including
Sweeney Todd, Cabaret, and Merrily We Roll
Along, for which she won an Austin Circle of
Theatres Best Actress Award. She then
ventured forth to New York City (What? An
unmarried, childless, Mexican, catholic girl off to
NYC by herself?) to study Musical Theater and
then found herself in Boston fronting an eight
piece R&B horn band. Yes, this girl can sing! I
mean, really sing! R&B, rock, blues, you name
it! Just ask her when you see her. She’ll break
into song for you! This girl can SAAAHNG!
It was in Boston where she began doing some
serious comedy (oxymoron alert) after that
breakup mentioned earlier. It wasn’t until after
yet another breakup that Sandra moved…ran…
well…escaped… clear across the country to Los
Angeles to start anew!
So, if Margaret Cho and George Lopez had a
love child it would be Sandra….only she’d have
a really big, brown, Asian head.
outrageously funny, in-your-face Latina comi -
and then some! Her comedy career began just
after an
ex-lover broke up with her then signed her up
for comedy classes as a consolation
prize. (That’s no joke!) An expert at “making
lemonade”, Sandra quickly learned to use the
stage to motivate, provoke, entertain, and…oh
yes…above all, make audiences LAUGH THEIR
@#$% OFF!
Sandra performs all over the country and at
local comedy clubs in Los Angeles including the
world-famous Laugh Factory, The Comedy
Store, and
The Hollywood Improv. Oh - and they simply
adore her in the UK where she cracked
them up at London's Comedy Camp. They’re
still gasping for air (and, no, it’s not because
the Brits smoke 10 packs of cigarettes a day).
Her television credits include Starz Network,
BET’s ComicView, Galavision’s Que Locos, Mun2
Loco Comedy Jam, SiTV’s Latino Laugh Festival,
Funny is Funny, Inside Joke, and, more
recently, HBO Latino original programming
“Habla”.
(Uh…that means, “talk” in Spanish. The ‘H’ is
silent.)
Sandra’s honest, explosive comic flair, original
writing talents, and her bi-lingual proficiency,
have opened the door to such gigs as joining
the comedy writing team of Nickelodeon’s
smash hit, Taina; writer, producer, and on-air
personality on Off The Roof, an international
show on Mun2 Television, as well as producing
and writing for SiTV networks. GLAAD
has honored her work at Mun2 with a Special
Recognition Award for her ground breaking
achievements on behalf of the gay and lesbian
community.
But the story begins much earlier in a little
town called Scottsbluff, Nebraska (yes, you
read it right) when Sandra was born into a
Mexican
family (what’s a Mexican doing in a red state?),
which quickly moved to Mexico where
Sandra spent her formative years and then, at
age 6, subsequently, made the “big move” to
America (for the record, there was no
swimming involved) and then settled in Laredo,
Texas (yes, the very one made famous by that
annoying song). Sandra attended Catholic
school but experienced a very difficult first day
of school as she didn’t speak one word of
English
(que?) and the nuns would charge 5 cents for
every Spanish word spoken. (dios mio!)
Needless to say, she never had lunch money
throughout the first grade. As the years
passed by, the only way Sandra coped with
Catholic school was acting a fool, playing in a
garage band, and the assurance that, every
now and then, a strong gust of wind would
come along and blow the girls’ blue plaid skirts
up to the heavens. (Thank God for uniforms.)
Sandra attended the University of Texas at
Austin where she studied acting and starred in
numerous musical productions including
Sweeney Todd, Cabaret, and Merrily We Roll
Along, for which she won an Austin Circle of
Theatres Best Actress Award. She then
ventured forth to New York City (What? An
unmarried, childless, Mexican, catholic girl off to
NYC by herself?) to study Musical Theater and
then found herself in Boston fronting an eight
piece R&B horn band. Yes, this girl can sing! I
mean, really sing! R&B, rock, blues, you name
it! Just ask her when you see her. She’ll break
into song for you! This girl can SAAAHNG!
It was in Boston where she began doing some
serious comedy (oxymoron alert) after that
breakup mentioned earlier. It wasn’t until after
yet another breakup that Sandra moved…ran…
well…escaped… clear across the country to Los
Angeles to start anew!
So, if Margaret Cho and George Lopez had a
love child it would be Sandra….only she’d have
a really big, brown, Asian head.
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