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Cheryl L. Davis |
Co-Development Director
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MOST RECENT PRODUCTION: BMW for Milk Can's "The Disorder Plays." CURRENTLY WORKING ON: So many things! But looking forward to Milk Can producing my play Swimming Uptown in the Spring! THREE WORDS THAT DESCRIBE ME: (I hope): Smart, funny, curious. |
MORE ON CHERYL... Cheryl's work has been read and performed nationally, including at the Cleveland Play House, the Actors Theatre of Louisville, and the Kennedy Center. She is a co-recipient of the 2005 Kleban Award for her work as a librettist, and her musical Barnstormer, written with award-winning composer Douglas J. Cohen, received one of the 2005 Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Awards, under the auspices of the Lark Play Development Center. Barnstormer, about Bessie Coleman, the first Black woman flyer, has received readings at the York Theater Company, the Lark Play Development Center, and Stamford Center for the Arts; it received a BareBones presentation at the Lark in November 2005 and a reading as part of Hartford Stage's "Brand:NEW" Festival in November 2007. Her play about the desegregation of the nations' school system, The Color of Justice, which was commissioned by Theatreworks/USA, received critical acclaim, including excellent reviews in the New York Times and Daily News, and tours regularly. Cheryl has a degree in English and a Certificate in Theatre and Dance from Princeton University, and has studied playwriting with Jean-Claude Van Itallie and Jeffrey Sweet. She was a Dramatists Guild Fellow in 2002, and was mentored by playwright/librettist Alfred Uhry. She is an alumna of the Playwrights' Lab of the Women's Project and Productions, of the River Writers Unit of the Ensemble Studio Theatre, and is a member of the Dramatists Guild. She is a practicing attorney in Manhattan and is a partner with the firm of Menaker & Herrmann LLP. Cheryl is the recipient of a Writers Guild Award for her work on the daytime dramatic serial As The World Turns. Her musical Barnstormer received a developmental production at the Red Mountain Theatre in Birmingham Alabama from January 28-31, 2010. |
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Contact Cheryl at Cheryl@milkcantheatre.org |
