She also directs Chicago’s Bodies of Work, an arts consortium that supports disability culture. Her research focuses on disability identity in live performance. Sandahl’s anthology co-edited with Philip Auslander, Bodies in Commotion: Disability and Performance (University of Michigan), garnered the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)’s award for Outstanding Book in Theatre Practice and Pedagogy in 2006. She is currently collaborating on a documentary film about Hollywood representations of disability, Code of the Freaks. Before working in Chicago, Sandahl was faculty in the School of Theatre at the Florida State University for eleven years.