Chatting With Sherri

  Sherri's Playhouse reprises Suicide Club, written by playwright Everett Robert!    Suicide Club is the latest radio play to come to Sherri’s Playhouse! This fascinating and shocking look to the underside of big city life as two sleuths try to unravel the mysteries of this diabolical club and help save the members before its too late!  

Chatting With Sherri welcomes Best Selling author; Jody Lynn Nye! Jody Lynn Nye writes fantasy and science fiction books and short stories. Before breaking away from gainful employment to write full time, Jody worked as a file clerk, book-keeper at a small publishing house, freelance journalist and photographer, accounting assistant and costume maker. She is one of the judges for the Writers Of The Future Awards! Since 1987 she has published over 50 books and more than 170 short stories. Among the novels Jody has written are her epic fantasy series, The Dreamland, beginning with Waking In Dreamland, five contemporary humorous fantasies, Mythology 101, Mythology Abroad, Higher Mythology (the three collected by Meisha Merlin Publishing as Applied Mythology), Advanced Mythology, The Magic Touch, and three medical science fiction novels, Taylor’s Ark, Medicine Show and The Lady and the Tiger. Strong Arm Tactics, a humorous military science fiction novel, the first of The Wolfe Pack series. Jody also wrote The D

Sherri's Playhouse reprises the radio play "A Widgie Knight" by Mary D Brooks! Eva takes on another persona to protect the woman that she loves and becomes a Widgie Knight! 

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back Producer; Craig Miller! This time we chat about his book;Star Wars Memories: My Time In The (Death Star) Trenches and his work in animation. Craig Miller is a well-known and respected writer/producer with over 300 credits but he began his Hollywood career as a specialist in motion picture publicity, promotion, and licensing. He started his marketing career fresh out of college, working for George Lucas on a science fiction movie nobody thought would break even: Star Wars. He was Producer-for-Lucasfilm on episodes of Sesame Street guest starring R2-D2 and C-3PO, the Star Wars robots, and other shows and projects. Miller set up as an independent publicity consultant, working with most of the major studios and many independent companies through his company, Con Artists, and with creative forces of nature such as Stephen Spielberg and Jim Henson.  Films he’s worked on include The Dark Crystal, The Muppets Take Manhattan, Excalibur, Superman II, Altered States, Splash, The Blac

Sherri's Playhouse reprise of the amazing Joe Kronus!   A time travel radio play!    Would you like to come along for the ride? See other times and stop those who would interfere with time.... What Does Jane Austen have to do with Gold in California?  Find out!

Sherri's Playhouse presents the radio play; Dimness!   Sherri's Playhouse presents 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.  

Chatting with sherri welcomes back Mary D Brooks about; Xena: Their Courage Changed Our World!  How Xena: Warrior Princess Changed Lives and Inspired Generations; What it's about; Xena: Warrior Princess that inspired the creation of Xena: Their Courage Changed Our World? On September 4, 2020 it will be Xena’s 25th Anniversary. Not many shows can lay claim to a fandom that was born at the birth of the internet. A small show filmed in New Zealand that beat the best on Television including Star Trek and Baywatch.  Not many shows can find intense loyalty to the actors, the producers and the writers long after the show ends. Xena: Warrior Princess found that fandom and it’s called The Xenaverse. It would set the template for all other fandoms to follow. This book is not about the actors, nor an episode guide or a behind the scenes look at this magnificent show. It’s a book about YOU the fan and the friendships you’ve made, the career path it set you on, the life changes that were made, the difference it made

Chatting With Sherri  welcomes Writers of the Future winner; Ms. F.J. Bergmann! F. J. Bergmann edits poetry for Mobius: The Journal of Social Change (mobiusmagazine.com), is the former editor of Star*Line, the journal of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association (sfpoetry.com), and imagines tragedies on or near exoplanets. She has competed at National Poetry Slam as a member of the Urban Spoken Word team. Her work appears irregularly in speculative markets that don’t pay enough to be pro, and literary journals that should have known better. A Catalogue of the Further Suns, a collection of dystopian first-contact expedition reports, won the 2017 Gold Line Press Poetry Chapbook contest and the 2018 Science Fiction Poetry Association Elgin Chapbook Award. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin, inside a towering library of science fiction, fantasy, and horror novels with her husband Fred and Wiley the cat, her spawn within bicycling distance. She works as a freelance book designer and copy editor for sever

Chatting With Sherri welcomes actor, scenic designer & production electrician and Foreman, of the Disney electrical Dept; Pat Osos! Pat Osos oversees the electrical facilities for the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank.  Before that he worked as Production Electrician at Culver Studios. He is also a scenic designer and set designer and worked at Hollywood Playhouse Theater.  Pat Osos acted as well as work with his hands, he did some soaps but found he loved working behind the scenes and he got to work with amazing people, so he switched to production work.              

Sherri's Playhouse presents 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. Followed by a replay of the cast interview. Radio play by Sherri Rabinowitz (I directed it too.) Original music by Ray Dafrico.    

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back Emmy Winning Producer/Writer/author; Brooks Wachtel! Brooks is a very talented and diverse man who won an Emmy Award for screenwriting for the animated hit series Tutenstein! Brooks is an Emmy Award-winning writer with a long resume in TV and film. Wachtel has written more than 100 produced episodes of television fiction. In addition to episodes of X-Men, he has written shows as diverse as Fox’s live-action Young Hercules (starring Ryan Gosling) and animated hits like Spider-Man, Heavy Gear, Robo-Cop, Beast Machines: Transformers and PBS’ Liberty’s Kids. For younger viewers, he penned episodes of the pre-school hits, Clifford the Big Red Dog and Rainbow Fish. Wachtel's episode, "I Did it My Way," for Tutenstein won an Emmy Award. For The History Channel, he co-created and executive produced the hit series DogFights. Wachtel also wrote and produced other documentaries for that network, including episodes of Defending America: National Guard and The Coast Guard. Additionally

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back multi-talented photographer; Ian L. Sitren! Ian L Sitren is a multi-talented photographer. He creates amazing pictures of athletes, models, actors and aircraft! "As a little boy I used to build military aircraft models and hang them from the ceiling in my room. Now I get to photograph them and fly in historic and military airplanes from World War II and many others.” "My project about the Yiddish Theatre has it’s beginning with my own family. Uncle Izzy as he was known in our family, was one of the pioneers of the Yiddish Theatre along 2nd Avenue in New York City along with the famous Maurice Schwartz. The impact of the Yiddish Theatre through the Century and today reaches from Edward G. Robinson, Irving Berlin, and even Marlon Brando and so very much more. Indeed without the Yiddish Theatre even “Apocalypse Now” may never have been the motion picture it became." "Photo excursions started out a few years ago with me just looking for interesting shoot locations. Then a co

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back best selling author; David Farland!     David Farland is an award-winning, international bestselling author with over 50 novels in print. He has won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Special Award for “Best Novel in the English Language” for his science fiction novel On My Way to Paradise, the Whitney Award for “Best Novel of the Year” for his historical novel In the Company of Angels, and many more awards for his work. He is best known for his New York Times bestselling fantasy series,The Runelords. Farland has written for major franchises such as Star Wars and The Mummy. He has worked in Hollywood greenlighting movies and doctoring scripts. He has been a movie producer, and he has even lived in China working as a screenwriter for a major fantasy film franchise. As a writing instructor, Farland has mentored dozens who have gone on to staggering literary success, including such #1 New York Times Bestsellers as Brandon Mull (Fablehaven), Brandon Sanderson (Wheel of Time),

Chatting With Sherri chats with the cast of Dimness from Sherri's Playhouse! 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. The cast of Dimness discuss the play and their parts.  It's a fun chat.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award-winning screenwriter/producer Tom Blomquist!   Tom Blomquist is an award-winning screenwriter, producer and director who has been associated with some of the nation’s most popular television dramas, including Catherine Marshall’s Christy, Walker Texas Ranger, The A-Team, Hunter, Riptide, Swamp Thing, Farscape, Werewolf, In A Heartbeat, FAME LA and Hardcastle & McCormick, among others. He was also Staff Producer on NBC’s classic late-night talk show Tomorrow With Tom Snyder and served as Creative Executive on the Emmy-  Ans the winning Hallmark Hall of Fame specials. In addition to his work in television Blomquist has published two books; the forensic mystery novel Silent Partners and a textbook Eye Of The Storm: Directing For Film, Television & Emerging Media, which is recommended reading in the Disney/ABC Directing Program. A new novel, Devious Thinking, will be released by Lindstrom Legacy Publishing this fall.  www.tomblomquist.com

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back talented actor; Drew Stephenson!   Best known for Vampire Diaries and Complications; Drew Stephenson is an Actor , Model, Musician, and Technologist who believes you get out what you put in, so he strives to always put every last piece of himself into his work.  His newest project I am in called "One Heart!". As 1st Generation American Drew Grew up with close ties to his families Caribbean Heritage which has influence his thirst for creativity and hunger for art. Drew enjoys boxing, hiking, basketball, and painting when he is not on set or building apps. Stephenson's long-term goals include directing and scoring his own projects alongside developing apps for the entertainment industry in an 'always on world'. In the interim, audiences have a chance to see this future star grow and glow as he lights up the screen and continues to forge his path to success!  http://www.imdb.me/drewstephenson 

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back author Mitzi Szereto! Mitzi is an author and anthology editor whose books encompass true crime and crime fiction, gothic fiction, cozy mystery, satire, parody, horror, sci-fi/fantasy, paranormal romance, erotic fiction, and general fiction and non-fiction. Her novels, short stories and anthologies have been translated into several languages. She has appeared at major international literature festivals and taught creative writing around the world, including several universities in the United Kingdom. The real monsters aren’t hiding in the woods—they’re in our towns. Featuring murder stories, criminal case studies, and more, The Best New True Crime Stories: Small Towns offers all-new accounts from today’s finest writers of true crime, crime fiction, and beyond. What’s more, these entries are not based on a true story—they are true stories. Edited by acclaimed author and anthologist Mitzi Szereto, the stories in this volume span the globe. Discover how murders, shooting spree

Sherri's playhouse reprises of my tiny play called Dowry!   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. It was a very personal project and so I am very interested in chatting with my cast about bringing it to life. We chat both plays and their parts in it. But it was so personal and special I decided to do it on Sherri’s Playhouse. This next part takes place after the family has moved to NYC after they started to assimulate.  And how my Grandma started working for some biggest stars in the theater    

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award-nominated​ author Piper Mejia! Piper Mejia is an advocate for New Zealand writers and literature and is a co-founder of Young NZ Writers - a non-profit dedicated to providing opportunities for young NZ writers. Her short fiction has appeared in a range of publications including Babyteeth, Conclave, Spec-Fic Short Cuts, Short Cuts Track 1, Te Korero Ahi Ka and Tricksters Treats 3.  A collection of her short stories, The Better Sister, will be published by Breach in 2020. As a child, Piper stayed up late laughing at horror films. As an adult, she spends a lot of time being disappointed by plot holes and yet somehow she has never lost her love for Science Fiction and Horror; two genres that continue to ask the question “What if …” The Better Sister; Throughout literature authors return again and again to the theme of three sisters; Cinderella and her two stepsisters, Medusa was one of three gorgons, King Lear had three daughters. Too often the sisters are portrayed as an inn

Sherri’s Playhouse reprises my radio play about my family origins; Mishpucha! This is both an interview with the cast and and the presentation of the radio play.  The cast talks about the parts and how they felt about playing them and then we broadcast the radio play itself which is a very short re-imagining of the founding of my family in the US.  Then there is a bit more chat, come and join the party! This show was recorded earlier so please do not call in.