Sandra Seaton is a playwright and librettist. Her plays have been performed in cities throughout the country, including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Ann Arbor and East Lansing. In 2008 her play The Will was produced in Idlewild, Michigan as part of an event she organized that included a symposium on African American culture and classical music, youth workshops, and recitals. Ruby Dee starred in a University of Michigan production of Seaton’s The Bridge Party, a finalist for the Theodore Ward Prize for African American Playwrights. Seaton explored the relationship between Jefferson and Sally Hemings in the song cycle From the Diary of Sally Hemings, a collaboration with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer William Bolcom, who set Seaton's text to music. The work premiered at the Library of Congress’s Coolidge Auditorium and has been performed throughout the country at such venues as the Kennedy Center, the University Musical Society in Ann Arbor, Carnegie Hall and the Herbst Theater in San Francisco. Seaton's one-woman drama, Sally, in which an aged Sally Hemings recalls her life with Jefferson, premiered at the New York State Writers Institute with Zabryna Guevara and has been performed in Denver and New York with Mizan Nunes as Sally. Seaton completed her trilogy on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings in 2008 with A Bed Made In Heaven, a full-length play that premiered at Central Michigan University. Seaton’s productions include A Chance Meeting, a one-act play featuring legendary Met tenor George Shirley, at the Arthur Miller Theater in May 2009.Specialties: Playwriting, play production, residencies at universities and colleges, creative writing workshops, guest lectures, student workshops-K-12, geneaology workshops/presentations.