She has directed plays by Dan Dietz, Kyle Schmidt, Heather Raffo, Jose Rivera, Quiara Alegría Hudes, and Kristoffer Diaz.
As the producer, director and co-author (with Emily Ackerman) of ReEntry, a play based on interviews with Marines returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, KJ produced its international tour and contracted with the United States Department of Defense, taking the play to service members at over thirty military bases and hospitals throughout the US and internationally.
With SITI Company, Sanchez played Mille Owen in Picnic,[8] Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Sibyl in Private Lives (all directed by Anne Bogart), and more.
[9] In 2000, Sanchez originated the role of Thyona in the world premiere of Charles Mee’s Big Love(Humana Festival) and went on to perform the play at Long Wharf, Berkeley Repertory Theater, The Goodman and Brooklyn Academy of Music.
[10] In 2001, Sanchez shifted her focus to writing and directing – she made Too Much Water (a devised piece about Shakespeare’s Ophelia, madness, and suicide) at the University of Washington.
[13] Sanchez then wrote Highway 47, an autobiographical piece exploring the history of her hometown and an inter-family land feud that nearly destroyed both clan and community.
[18] Cornerstone Theatre commissioned Sanchez to write For All Time, and in 2008, they produced the play about America’s criminal justice system.
King Records was one of the first racially integrated businesses in Cincinnati and was a revolutionary presence in the music industry for two decades starting in the 1940s, “making enormous contributions” to the birth of Rock and Roll.