Comedy Festival

Sandra has worked with Second City and Theatresports, and as a puppeteer on Fraggle Rock before deciding to strike out on her own. In 1987, she applied to the Edmonton Fringe Festival to perform her first show, My Boyfriend’s Back and There’s Gonna Be Laundry. It became the smash hit of the festival, and soon Shamas was on tour performing the show across the country. Two sequals, My Boyfriend’s Back and There’s Gonna Be Laundry II: The Cycle Continues and Wedding Bell Hell were also great successes. After taking a hiatus, Shamas returned with a new series of shows, Wit’s End. Shamas has been nominated for the Governor General’s Award and the Stephen Leacock Award for the Laundry trilogy. She won a Gemini Award in 1991 for Best Performance in Comedy, and won the Best Theatre Award at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in March 2003.