Additional theater credits include the 2009 musical adaptation of "Bonnie & Clyde" at the La Jolla Playhouse, The Classic Stage Company's production of "The Tempest" which earned him the Actors' Equity Foundation's St. Clair Bayfield Award, which honors the best performance by an actor in a Shakespearean play in the New York metropolitan area. From June 25 to July 12, 2009, Sands appeared in the Shakespeare in the Park's production of "Twelfth Night", featuring Anne Hathaway, Audra McDonald and Raul Esparza.