Chatting With Sherri

Sherri's Playhouse reprises  Mishpucha!   Sherri’s Playhouse presents a very short tiny play called Mishpucha! It was originally for an under 10 minute play writing contest. But it was so personal and special I decided to do it on Sherri’s Playhouse. It is a very short re-imagining of the founding of my family in the US.  We also have  an interview with the cast to chat about the characters and the time period.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes Producer and Screenwriter; Babs Greyhosky!  Babs Greyhosky is a Producer and Screenwriter for many faboulsous shows! She is one of the first women to  break through the glass ceiling  in both the writing room and as a producer. She has written Teleplays for shows such as "Magnum, P.I.", "Riptide", "The A-Team", and "The Greatest American Hero." and "Farscape."  

Sherri's Playhouse reprises the radio play; Dimness! All alone. In a small room.  All you can remember about yourself is your name. Three lonely people reach out to each other in the dimness, al they know are their names and how they are dressed. Radio play by Sherri Rabinowitz (I directed it too.) Original music by Ray Dafrico. play is followed by a rebroadcast of the cast interview from earlier this year, please stay tuned to listen to our chat This a repeat of a performance from last year.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back author Wulf Moon! Wulf Moon wrote his first science fiction story at fifteen. It won the national Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, the same contest that first discovered Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Truman Capote, Peter S. Beagle, and a host of iconic names in the arts. It became his first professional sale in Science World. Since then Moon has won over forty writing awards, and thirty in public speaking. These include: Star Trek Strange New Worlds Contest; Critters Readers' Choice Awards for Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Story of 2018, 2019, 2020; Best Nonfiction Article of 2019, Best Author of 2019, 2020; Best Writers' Workshop of 2019, 2020; and the Writers of the Future Contest, Vol. 35. His stories have appeared in numerous publications including Writers of the Future, Deep Magic, Future Science Fiction Digest, Best of Third Flatiron, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2. Moon is also a professional voice-over actor and has produced works for Hugo Aw

  Chatting With Sherri welcomes back USA Today bestselling and award winning author Eileen Mueller! Eileen is chatting about Anakisha’s Dragon, book 1 in her new Riders of Fire Dragon Masters series. Great for fans of dragons, pirates and adrenaline-fueled fantasy adventures. Available now on Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BG7V7GS  

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back publisher and writer; John Goodwin!   Over its 35 year history, the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest has recognized 404 winners who have gone on to publish 1,150 novels and 4,450 short stories.  Of these, 192 are still active with a writing career—that’s over 40%. Twelve of these Contest winners have gone on to become NYT bestselling authors. And Contest Winners have garnered 155 major awards.  Collectively, the winners of the contests have sold over 60 million books over the years.  And with the last 4 volumes of Writers of the Future hitting national bestseller lists—and each of the winners becoming national bestselling authors and illustrators as a result—contest entries continue to increase each quarter with entries from around the world.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award winning artist Dan Dos Santos! Well known for his colorful oil paintings, most often depicting strong women, Dan dos Santos’ work spans a variety of genres, including novels, comics, film, and video games. He has worked for clients such as Disney, Universal Studios, Activision, Boeing Aircraft, Scholastic Books, The Greenwich Workshop, Penguin Books, Random House, UpperDeck, Hasbro, DC Comics, and many, many more. Dan has been the recipient of many awards. He is a Rhodes Family Scholarship winner, a five-time Hugo Award Nominee for Best Artist, and has received both Gold and Silver Medals from “Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art.” His illustrations have graced the #1 spot on the New York Times Bestseller list numerous times and his covers are seen in bookstores in dozens of countries around the world.   He has been an Illustrators of the Future judge since 2019.“The Illustrators of the Future is an amazing compass for what the art industry holds in store fo

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back with author and playwright Mary D Brooks! I will get  to catch up with author and playright, Mary D. Brooks about "Beyond These Gates," part one, her newest radio play series, her novel and audio book;  "Enemy at the Gate."    This show is recorded.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back director, writer, actor; Tom Konkle! Tom is a talented actor and director his latest is;  Noise in the Middle; After the sudden death of his wife, a grieving father of a severely non-verbal autistic girl seeks experimental therapy where he unknowingly rents an Airbnb with a haunted history. This stirs his daughter's psychic abilities along with his personal demons. The result is a story full of suspense, tension, empathy and a powerful metaphor about the Noise In All Of Us. Tom's won best thriller in the Los Angeles Film Awards for his classically inspired 1940’s noir feature, TROUBLE IS MY BUSINESS.  Directed by and starring Thomas Konkle, the film follows Roland Drake, a Los Angeles Private Investigator trying to untangle a mystery that only lands him in deep trouble.  And Brittney Powell won the Stella Adler award for acting in film!  "Beware the Bwana in khaki who hires you for the crew of his TV wildlife documentary, for he is often a lousy tipper." - Zulu Proverb

Chatting With Sherri welcomes Scot Noel! Scot Noel created DreamForge Magazine in 2019. He has been published in Eden Studios Zombie anthologies, Algis Budrys’ Tomorrow Speculative Fiction magazine, and has written novellas and interaction text for computer games.  Tangent, the genre's premiere review magazine for short SF & Fantasy, listed 20 DreamForge stories on their 2020 Recommended Reading List. In 2021, Scot's DreamForge project is being rebranded as DreamForge Anvil, SF & Fantasy Stories and How to Write Them. An online magazine of speculative fiction that is positive and hopeful, while also helping new writers learn their craft. He has also collaborated with UpRoar Books and Space and Time magazine to publish an anthology of the best short stories appearing in DreamForge and Space and Time. That effort is being published this May as Worlds of Light & Darkness, Vol. 1. Scot is one of the winners of the Writers of the Future contest and his story, “Riches Like Dust,” is published in L.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes Roger Q Mason! Roger Q. Mason is a playwright and screenwriter whose work investigates the intersection of history, memory, and identity. His play The White Dress was semi-finalist for the 2018 Bay Area Playwrights Festival and the inaugural Shonda Rhimes Emerging Playwright Award. Mason's short film Softer is based upon a play of the same title.    Breathe., produced and directed by Roger Q Mason and written and performed by Philicia Saunders, is a form of art activism fusing live performance, cinema, performance art and artistic swimming in a hybridized narrative that could only be born during these challenging, yet galvanizing times. With the recent political, racial, and global unrest occurring throughout 2020, Philicia wrote and stars in this one-woman live theater show based on her life-changing personal journey towards activism after a chance trip to a Civil Rights monument, and mentorship by a luminary of activism, Sweet Alice Harris - one of Watts, CA's most beloved c

       Chatting with Sherri welcomes back award winning screenwriter; Shaene Siders! Shaene Siders is an award-winning action and science fiction writer who geeks out over swords, sorcery, and superheroes. Never read her scripts without a helmet!   Her credits include Marvel's Avengers Assemble, DC Super Hero Girls, the Emmy-Award-winning Niko and the Sword of Light, LEGO Monkie Kid, and Netflix’s Saint Seiya:  Knights of the Zodiac. She has also written for The Octonauts, The Discovery Channel, and even NASA.   Most recently nominated for the Humanitas Prize, Shaene does have a sensitive side and is the Head Writer and Co-Executive Producer for Hello Kitty and Friends Supercute Adventures, which she claims has more explosions than you might think.    

Sherri's Playhouse proudly presents Ams Libe! Ams Libe in Yiddish means True Love, sometimes love takes a strange course… two young people separated by an ocean during the first war.  Reaching out to each other the only way they can, through letters.  

Chatting with Sherri welcomes the cast of Ams Libe! We chat with the delightful cast of Ams Libe about the love, the seperation and how we can related to it today. Ams Libe in Yiddish means True Love, sometimes love takes a strange course… two young people separated by an ocean during the first war.  Reaching out to each other the only way they can, through letters.  

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back award winning author Eileen Mueller! Eileen is chatting about Enchanted Kingdoms, a new 99c box set of 20 fairytale retelling novels. All proceeds support Puzzle Peace, a charity for children with Autism. Available now on all retail stores: https://books2read.com/EnchantedKingdoms

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back fun and talented actor; Alexandra Tydings! Alexandra Tydings is an American actress, director, writer, producer, and activist.  Alex is a prolific actor best known as Aphrodite in Xena: Warrior Princess! She has also played in a variety of shows such as; Dr. Kathleen Brady in What Death Leaves Behind,  and as Victoria Reynolds in The Sunchaser. This is a fun recorded chat about too many subjects to list but we had a lot of fun; please join us

Chatting With Sherri welcomes author Todd McCaffrey! Todd McCaffrey spent most of his childhood on the East Coast of the USA until moving to Dublin, Ireland with his mother and sister in 1970.Todd J. McCaffrey (born as Todd Johnson) is an Irish American author of science fiction best known for continuing the Dragonriders of Pern series in collaboration with his mother Anne McCaffrey.The sale of some of his early short stories helped him log an impressive amount of airtime. He flew across the continent solo in 1989, attending Oshkosh along the way. After quitting his day job in 1990 to write full time, he repeated his solo cross-continent flight and attended the 1990 Oshkosh as well. Todd McCaffrey became a Writers of the Future judge in 2011 “The Writers of the Future is one of the premier awards that’s available particularly to new writers. It’s basically the only one there. This is a chance to open up the universe to reward people who are trying and striving and succeeding in creating great stories, to re

Chatting With Sherri welcomes animal lover and author; Chuck Hawley! Chuck Hawley is an award winning American Author of "children's books, that adults should read too." Chuck had written stories his whole life, but his writing career was set into motion one morning by finding a kitten that had been cruelly covered in glue and stuck to a road in Salem Oregon.  After the story of finding Sticky, (what the Kitten would end up being named...) went viral, he was suddenly given the platform to take his stories to a large audience. His first book about Sticky quickly won a 'Best Children's Book of 2018' award. Two more books quickly came along and the series can now be found in Libraries, Schools and homes in 16 countries around the world and that list of countries grows daily. Chuck says the goal in his writing is to "gently teach empathy, compassion, and to try and make the world a better place by opening the mind of the readers to a different point of view, that they maybe hadn't thought of". Chucks books teac

Chatting With Sherri welcomes author;Edy Graziani! Edy is the author of the women’s fiction novel, EVERYTHING THAT WAS US, February 8, 2021 (The Wild Rose Press). She has also written Breaking Faith (Second Story Press), a contemporary YA fiction novel, selected for the 'In the Margins' Book Award 2018 Recommended Fiction List, and one of Canadian Children's Book Centre's Best Books for Kids and Teens, and the YA historical memoir, War in My Town (Second Story Press), one of Canadian Children's Book Centre's Best Books for Kids and Teens and finalist in the Hamilton Arts Council 2016 Literary Awards for Best Non-Fiction. Reader and reviewer, WUoC Short Prose Competition for Emerging Writers, 2019. Regular contributor, CHCH Morning Live Book Chat. She resides in Canada with her husband and four daughters. To contact the author or for more information on new releases or events, please visit her website.... egraziani1.wix.com/egrazianiauthor   

Chatting With Sherri welcome back the charming and talented  Adrienne Wilkinson! I am so happy to welcome back the talented & charming; Adrienne Wilkinson! Adrienne  is a wonderfully talented actress best known as Xena's daughter Eve/Livia on Xena Warrior Princess.   Adrienne is back to chat about her new adventures, her hobbies and new projects; including her new movies; DREAMCATCHER!  CAMEO:   www.cameo.com/yoadriennew      RAVE VIP:  for video fan meet & greets and for  coaching/consulting:  https://www.ravevip.com/profile/adriennewilkinson This show was pre-recorded please don't call in.