MOST RECENT PRODUCTION: Playwright of Milk Can's Fall 2007 production of By Oscar Micheaux.

CURRENTLY WORKING ON: Barnstormer and re-visiting Carefully Taught.

Carefully Taught is a play about the impact a reverse discrimination lawsuit has on a friendship. I'm also trying to decide between two potential full-length plays, both of which are calling to me: one about Effa Manley, who co-owned and operated a Negro League Baseball team with her husband (and who became the first woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame), and another contemporary play that would expand upon my short play Swimming Uptown that was one of last year's Potluck Plays.

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.