Sandy Veneziano
Featured Alumnus

Sandy Veneziano (BFA 1973, MA 1975, MFA 1978), is a freelance director and set designer in California.  Since graduating from NU with a master's in fine art, she has worked in the film and television industry.  Her long list of credits includes "Dead Poet's Society", "Outrageous Fortune", "Home Alone II", "Star Trek: The Next Generation", "Dallas", "Terms of Endearment", "Stripes" and the feature film of "My Favorite Martian".  She recently completed work on the film "The Lone Ranger" and worked as the production designer for the television show "Gilmore Girls".  (Sandy's Television and Film Credits)

She also has taught film design classes at NU between Hollywood assignments and was honored for her professional success as a university Master in 1994.  She received the 2003 Alumni Achievement in Theatre Arts, a UNL Alumni Association Alumni Achievement Award in 2000 and is a member of the Hixson-Lied Advisory Board, which reviews and reacts to requests for expenditures of income from the Hixson-Lied endowment.

She is currently a faculty member at the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, teaching Production Design: Film and TV, Scene Design I & II and Principles of Design.