The Sand Box

Specialties

The Sand Box is a place to create and play with your set and props before tech week. It’s tailored to small theater and film companies, and it’s an experiment in sharing & reusing resources. We rent our rehearsal space (16′ x 17′) for $ 10/​hour and our shop (22′ x 12′ workspace) for $ 75/​day. Email badsandy@​gmail.​com for info and reservations.

History

Established in 2013.

The creators are members of Gideon Productions, a small theater company that has been producing new plays in NYC since 2000. We’d been building our sets in Sandy Yaklin & Mac Roger’s live/​work space but needed to move, and given the high price of real estate in NYC, that meant looking at «creative» options. We reached out to companies we’d worked with — Boomerang Theatre Company, Flux Theatre Ensemble and Vampire Cowboys — about sharing a storage, shop & rehearsal space. The result is a unique resource in Queens, not just for these companies, but for other independent theater and film companies as well.

Meet the Business Owner

Sandy Y.

Business Owner

Sandy Yaklin is the resident set designer for Gideon Productions and also works freelance on film and theater projects. In 2014, she is heading the launch of The Sh.I.T. List (shit-​list, biz), a web database for trading theater & film goods. Recent scenic design and art direction projects include «Song of Two Suns,» «Paper Store,» «Freak Me,» «The Understudy,» «The Family Play,» «Richard 3,» and «Frankenstein Upstairs.» Sandy is also a lawyer and has a keen interest in reducing waste and improving our environmental practices.