Eileen DeSandre

Eileen DeSandre is a proud member of Actors’ Equity and a Lifetime Company Member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival where, over 17 seasons, she played such varied roles as Holofernes in Love’s Labour’s Lost; Bessie Berger in Awake and Sing; Juliana Tesman in Hedda Gabler; Nurse Preen in The Man Who Came to Dinner; Bertha Katz in Paradise Lost; Francis Flute in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; and Maddalena Guarnieri in the OSF and Kennedy Center productions of ANPF 1995 winning play The Magic Fire by Lillian Garrett-Groag; and many others.

Work at other theaters has included Miss Helen in The Road to Mecca (Profile Theatre, Portland, Portland Drammy Award); the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet (Riverside Theatre, NYC); Lotte Schoen in Lettice and Lovage(Loessin Theatre, Greenville, NC); and Jeanne d’Arc in Jeanne d’Arc au Bucher (Oregon Bach Festival, conducted by Marin Alsop), as well as the first post-NYC production of Becoming Dr. Ruth at Virginia Rep in Richmond.

For ANPF, she has played Nancy in the ANPF 2018 reading of Meridith Friedman’s I Can Go and Cousin Margaret in the ANPF 2019 reading of Pelicans by David Johnston. Other local theatre credits include Bella in Fragments (Rogue Theatre Company, directed by Liisa Ivary).