Writing

A versatile creative writer whose work spans sketch comedy, stand-up, storytelling, screenplays and musicals,  Sheri is also a journalist who has covered the Sundance Film Festival through the Press Inclusion Initiative. Her work has been featured in many publications including The Sun-Times, The Chicago Reader, Quill Magazine, Performink, McSweeney's the Chicago Defender, Newcity Stage, Windy City Times, Rescripted and Chicagoland Musical Theater. Sheri was the recipient of an Author's Fellowship from the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing.  Sheri has been a guest on WTTW Chicago Tonight, WGN Radio, Vocalo Radio's Morning AMp Council of Feminist  Thought show, and numerous podcasts, discussing film, theater, improv and social justice. Her TV pilot BENT OUT OF SHAPE placed as a finalist in the BlkScript's Inaugural Screenplay List, a semifinalist in the ScreenCraft Comedy Competition, a Semifinalist in the Filmatic Comedy Season 8 Awards, a Quarterfinalist in the Stage 32 Comedy Screenwriting Contest, and a Semifinalist in the Creative Screenwriting Pilot Competition. In her work onstage, Sheri was head writer for Choice the Musical, and writes and performs sketch shows with the musical sketch duo Flanders.