Sandy Timmerman is an artist, performer, stage manager and cook.
After growing up in rural Indiana and working with her mother and father on the family dairy farm, She graduated with honors from Indiana University in 1990 with degrees in theater and English literature. She then joined the United States Peace Corps traveling to Ecuador as an agricultural extensionist.
After returning from South America she moved to Albuquerque, NM with longtime friend,
Richard Van Schouwen, to pursue a shared dream of beginning a theatre company.
She spent 30 years in New Mexico working in the theatrical community, forming q-Staff Theater, creating original performances, producing artists from around the country and building two theater facilities. The most recent is a renovated warehouse space in downtown Albuquerque with attached artist residences and work spaces.
During her time in New Mexico she also owned and operated Winning Coffee for 15 years as part of q-Staff's larger enterprises. She often worked around the country in collaborations with other theaters, most often with Double Edge Theatre of Ashfield, MA.
Other collaborations and projects included: Project Coordinator in Budapest Hungary in1997. Assisted theater producer Philip Arnoult with the Trust for Mutual Understanding's US/Hungarian exchange project festival in Budapest, acting as US coordinator for the project.      
In 2018 she worked as Project Manager/Stage Manager/Producer in coordination with
the Trust for Mutual Understanding, the city of Albuquerque and Theatre Stereo Akt of Budapest Hungary to produce and create “Promenade Albuquerque” an international project that created work around the living culture of each city (Budapest, Baltimore,
Albuquerque). 
She currently lives and works in Wester Massachusetts and is the Artist Liason for A.P.E. at 33 Hawley St in Northampton MA