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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.