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Sherry Shameer Cohen

Sherry Shameer Cohen is an award winning parachute journalist, ad copywriter, and photographer who is always looking for more challenging work. Her work has appeared in Connecticut Magazine, Greenwich Magazine, Stamford Plus, Norwalk Plus, The Advocate, Greenwich Time, The Minuteman, Connecticut Jewish Ledger, The Jewish Chronicle, The Jewish Press, The New Jewish Voice, and various daytime magazines. She has stage managed, designed flyers, programs and props for community theatre and reviewed theatre for the Connecticut Jewish Ledger, Theater Inform, and New England Entertainment Digest. She lives in Connecticut with her three drama kings - husband, Ken and sons Alexander Seth Cohen and Jonathan Ross Cohen.




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First Show:

Fiddler on the Roof

Favorite Show:

Ragtime

Favorite Stories:

  • BWW Interviews: GENEVA CARR - Geneva's background is so different from other performers. She was a Wall Street shark for quite some time before deciding that she was meant to act. She started late, but you would think she was acting her entire life.
  • An Iliad at Long Wharf Theatre - I'm not a fan of the original book, but this production blew me away, especially with Rachel Christopher's narration of a story that has contemporary parallels. She has incredible stage presence and even studied ancient Greek long before the show. She is also a student of Taekwando, so she can kicka** on and off the stage.
  • BWW Interview: Christine Scarfuto in New Haven - I like to interview the unsung heroes of theater. Christine is a dramaturg. I never knew there was such a job. Listening to a dramaturg talk about a play is truly enlightening because you learn so much about the background of the playwright and the times in which the play was written.
  • BWW Interview: Ali Stroker On AN EVENING WITH ALI STROKER at Westport Country Playhouse - Ali overcame a devasting accident that left her paralyzed when she was a toddler. That didn't stop her from pursuing her dreams. She broke a glass ceiling for people with disabilities. Big mouth that I am, I told her that she should do Shakespeare and mentioned that I saw Darius de Hass in Twelfth Night in wheelchair after he injured his Achilles tendon. She seemed hesitant, but then she performed in Shakespeare in The Park. I was delighted when I saw her on Only Murders in the Building.
  • Previews: SOMETHING ROTTEN! at Westhill High School - I knew Something Rotten! was not going to be your average high school show because it was produced by Stamford All-Schools Musicals. The directors, choreographers, costume designers, and set designers are all professionals and the student talent is incredible. All of them have had some stage experience and some have pursued professional careers. I knew this production would be good, but when I saw it, I was flabbergasted. I'd seen the show before at a community theater, but it was forgettable. This production was absolutely amazing.


BWW Reviews: brownsville song in New Haven
BWW Reviews: brownsville song in New Haven
April 6, 2015

Community violence affects everyone differently.

BWW Reviews: GOOD PEOPLE in Stratford
BWW Reviews: GOOD PEOPLE in Stratford
March 12, 2015

Who is naughty? Who is nice?

BWW Reviews: BAD JEWS in New Haven
BWW Reviews: BAD JEWS in New Haven
March 3, 2015

What family doesn't have its ups and downs? (Actually, that was from 'The Lion in Winter.')

BWW Reviews: FOREVER in New Haven
BWW Reviews: FOREVER in New Haven
January 12, 2015

Forget the fiercest winter wind. Dael Orlandersmith will blow you away in the world premiere of her new one-woman show, Forever.

BWW Interviews: Graphics Designer CLAIRE ZOGHB
BWW Interviews: Graphics Designer CLAIRE ZOGHB
December 17, 2014

You will never take a program cover for granted.

BWW Reviews: PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE in New Haven
BWW Reviews: PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE in New Haven
December 9, 2014

Blurb: A gaggle of geniuses walk into a bar and brilliance happens

BWW Reviews: PETER PAN, JR. in Bridgeport
BWW Reviews: PETER PAN, JR. in Bridgeport
November 13, 2014

A lot of people have had their hands in creating Peter Pan, Jr., and the result is a wonderful show for the children. Based on the 1904 J.M. Barrie and 1953 Disney film, Peter Pan, Jr. streamlines a lot of the story and songs of the productions with which most adults are familiar. The most glaring omissions are the songs, 'I'm Flying' and 'I Won't Grow Up' and the barely visible strings of the flying effects. But this production at the Downtown Cabaret Children's Theatre more than make up for that. And, after all, most of the kids won't know what they missed, and will enjoy the show anyway.

BWW Reviews: INTIMATE APPAREL in Westport
BWW Reviews: INTIMATE APPAREL in Westport
October 20, 2014

The 10th anniversary revival of Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage's play, Intimate Apparel, is closing the Westport Country Theatre's regular season on, well, a very strong thread.

BWW Reviews: THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE in Westport
BWW Reviews: THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE in Westport
August 26, 2014

What is this thing called love?

BWW Interviews: VANESSA KAI
BWW Interviews: VANESSA KAI
August 13, 2014

Once in a while you see an actor whose performance just blows you away. That happened when I saw A.R. Gurney's Far East for the third time and Vanessa Kai was cast as The Reader. A few years later I saw her perform in the physically demanding and emotionally wrenching two-person show, An Infinite Ache, about a couple who meet, marry and grow old together.

BWW Reviews: A Rockin' MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
BWW Reviews: A Rockin' MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
August 14, 2014

New arts center raises the bar for a Shakespeare favorite

BWW Interviews: GENEVA CARR
BWW Interviews: GENEVA CARR
August 11, 2014

Geneva Carr: 'I haven't crested the best part of my career.'

BWW Reviews: NORA in Westport
BWW Reviews: NORA in Westport
July 21, 2014

Scenes from a marriage

BWW Reviews: THE BIKINIS in New Haven
BWW Reviews: THE BIKINIS in New Haven
July 15, 2014

Not your ordinary revue

BWW Reviews: IN THE HEIGHTS in Bridgeport
BWW Reviews: IN THE HEIGHTS in Bridgeport
July 15, 2014

Upper West Side Story, sort of

BWW Interviews: Amy Oestreicher
BWW Interviews: Amy Oestreicher
July 11, 2014

When you lose most of your digestive system, what more is there to fear?

BWW Interviews: William Squier
BWW Interviews: William Squier
July 11, 2014

What it takes to write a children's musical

BWW Reviews: ENDURANCE in New Haven
BWW Reviews: ENDURANCE in New Haven
June 23, 2014

Learning from a shipwreck

BWW Reviews: THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA in Rowayton
BWW Reviews: THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA in Rowayton
June 19, 2014

Shakespeare on the Sound ushered in its 19th year with Shakespeare's first play, The Two Gentlemen of Verona.'

BWW Reviews: SING FOR YOUR SHAKESPEARE in Westport
BWW Reviews: SING FOR YOUR SHAKESPEARE in Westport
June 9, 2014

Who knew Shakespeare could be so VIRAL?



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