Chatting With Sherri

Chatting With Sherri welcomes actor and writer; Arielle Strauss Brueland!  Arielle Strauss Brueland is an author, actress, and percussionist. Her YA paranormal romance series, The Wraith Trilogy, has been republished by AUSXIP Publishing in 2020. Arielle has performed on Off-Off Broadway and at the New York Fringe Festival. Her favorite job was traveling with Momentum Theatre Troupe around New England, performing Shakespeare on a truck that opened to a stage. Since that dream came true, Arielle has begun to take an interest in Audio Theatre. She currently works as a voice actress with San Diego-based company Sherri's Playhouse. She's also hard at work collaborating with AUSXIP Audio and the XVPodcasters to bring the character of Zoe Lambros to life in a series of audiobooks by Mary D. Brooks. Arielle loves being part of a creative team whose goal is to bring stories to life. When she's not acting or writing, Arielle can be seen touring on the bongos with Jersey-based rock/pop musicians Don Lee and The Wa

Sherri's Playhouse reprises Mabel of the Anzacs by Mary D. Brooks!   Adapted by Mary for the radio theater from her new novel,  Mabel of the Anzacs! Two women - one a fiery teenager, the other a cantankerous octogenarian - find their mutual antipathy blossoms into an unlikely friendship. Together the two women forge a close bond that will change their lives forever. It's a friendship for the ages.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes a great fan fiction panel! Melissa Good is a full time network engineer and part time writer who lives in Pembroke Pines, When not traveling for work, or participating in the usual chores she ejects several sets of clamoring voices onto a variety of keyboards and tries to entertain others with them to the best of her ability. She is a prolific author of many published novels, her latest is Southern Stars,(with a new novel due out very soon and she is a very well-known author of Xena fan fiction. Melissa “Missy” Good is the Royal Academy of Bards 2005 Hall of Fame Author and the winner of 2008 Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award. . Mary D Brooks has won numerous awards for her fiction, but one of the highlights of her life (and one of the biggest thrills) was to have her first novel "In the Blood of the Greeks" and the non-fiction "In the Blood of the Greeks: The Illustrated Companion" showcased in the Jewish Museum of Greece's book collection about the holocaust in Greece d

Sherri's Playhouse proudly reprises our next radio play; The Thief's Tale! Whitney is a thief. A good one. Like a mosquito she comes in quietly, first anaesthetising, then feeding, and finally leaving before her prey know any better. It's a strategy which has worked for her 22 times in the past. But when she lands in Refuge, a discovery at an estate sale opens the door to other possibilities.  

Chatting With Sherri welcomes author; Robert Hoyman! Robert Hoyman is a graduate of the University of South Florida. His journey as a classroom teacher spanned 41 years teaching in private and public schools in Florida, California, and Virginia. Limerick Comics is his debut book. He is a member of SCBWI. Limerick Comics: Collected limericks for children ages 8 to 12, humorously present factual tidbits from science and history with comic-book-style illustrations. In his debut book, Hoyman combines two forms that kids love – limericks and comic books – to offer one-page lessons on various subjects.  

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back screenwriter and author; Paul Coyle!   I am so excited to welcome the very talented Paul Coyle to my show, I have been watching and enjoying his shows for years.  He was a writer on Crazy Like a Fox and Jake and the Fatman,  Xena: Warrior Princess. As well a writer for three Trek series – Star Trek: The Animated Series; Star Trek: Voyager; and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.  He was a writer/producer for Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. .Paul also wrote for other genre series such as Superboy, The Dead Zone, and Space Precinct His latest adventure is a book; Swords, Starships and Superheroes: From Star Trek to Xena to Hercules: A Screenwriter's Life Scripting the Stories of Heroes!

Chatting With Sherri Welcomes back author; Greg Hickey!   Greg Hickey was born in Evanston, Illinois in 1985. After graduating from Pomona College in 2008, he played and coached baseball in Sweden and South Africa. He is now a forensic scientist, endurance athlete and award-winning writer. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Lindsay. Parabellum: Why does this keep happening? A shooting at a Chicago beach leaves several dead and dozens injured. In the year before the attack, four individuals emerge as possible suspects; An apathetic computer programmer. An ex-college athlete with a history of head injuries. An Army veteran turned Chicago cop. A despondent high school student. One of them is the shooter. Discover who and why.   The Theory of Anything; description: A brilliant professor. A shocking murder. The truth is more complex and unpredictable than it seems. When Dr. David Solon walked out of the coffee shop on the afternoon of May 3, 2011, he didn’t expect to foil an attempted robbery in a nearb

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award winning author and editor; Sean Patrick Hazlett! Sean Patrick Hazlett is an Army veteran, speculative fiction writer and editor, and finance executive in the San Francisco Bay area.  Sean is the editor for his upcoming release, an anthology entitled Weird World War III, where he takes on several topics he learned about from declassified CIA documents in this anthology.   Sean was a Writers of the Future winner in 2017 and his winning story, "Adramelech," appears in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 33      

Sherri's playhouse reprises The  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 back Nicholas Diak and Michele Brittany! Nicholas and Michele have co-edited "Horror Literature from Gothic to Post-Modern: Critical Essays" together! Nicholas Diak is a pop culture scholar who specializes in Italian genre cinema, contemporary sword and sandal films, industrial music, 80s retroism, and H. P. Lovecraft studies. His first book, The New Peplum: Essays on Sword and Sandal Films and Television Programs Since the 1990s, was published in late 2017 while his second book, co-edited with Michele Brittany, Horror Literature from Gothic to Post-Modern: Critical Essays released earlier this year. Michele Brittany is an independent popular culture scholar and is the editor of Horror in Space: Critical Essays on a Film Subgenre and James Bond and Popular Culture: Essays on the Influence of the Fictional Superspy. Michele is the Book Review Editor for the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, co-chair of the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference, and co-host of the twice monthly

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. 

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back actor/writer/director; Eric Erickson!   Ascension;​  NETHERLANDS 1463- During a night of terror and otherworldly horror, the small Dutch village of Den Bosch burns to the ground. History claims it was a tragic accident, but the truth is a dark secret that birthed a shadowy society known only as the Brotherhood. THE PRESENT- When a sacred artifact is stolen from United Nations cultural scientist Dr. Kurt Stone, he wants answers. His search leads him to the top secret Aurora Project, where Stone learns the team has crossed the ultimate frontier... death itself. On the other side of this life is a universe called the Realm, the next step in human evolution. Yet not all those who reside there are benevolent. A dark power lurks with mysterious ties to the Brotherhood and the goal of conquering both sides of death.With enemies closing in, Stone and his new team travel this world and the next in a search for what really lies beyond... in the Realm. In his first novel in a new wo

Chatting With Sherri with the Adminstrator of The Miss Fisher’s Secret Society and The 1920’s; Debra Smith!   The Miss Fisher’s Secret Society and The 1920’s Facebook page is a place where members can escape to and can express their enjoyment and love of all things Miss Fisher and the 1920’s with like minded people.        

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back author Gary Williams! Demons Are Rude; Booker “Book” Patrick is having a rough time. His wife left, his career fell apart, and he’s been forced to move to St. Augustine, Florida, and take a low-paying job. The only place he can afford to live is a treehouse in a crusty old man’s back yard. Walking Guen: For several years, author Gary Williams has walked his beloved female yellow Labrador retriever, Guen, through the historic streets of St. Augustine, Florida, and posted their amusing—sometimes educational, mostly whimsical—conversations on social media. (Yes, dogs can talk. Just ask any dog owner.)        

Sherri's Playhouse reprises radio play; Cat's Pajamas! Welcome to The Cat’s Pajamas!  This is the Roaring Twenties, it was a time of Speak- Easys, Bath Tub Gin and Smugglers and Mobsters.  It was also a time that women were moving up in the world, they now have the vote, they have the right to go to college and get a job.  This is also the time of the modern women, as well as dancing, smoking, short skirts and sexual exploration.  So join Orchid as she brings us into this exciting world that opened the path for our world today!  Meow!

Chatting With Sherri Welcomes Back Buzz Dixon! Buzz Dixon is a  writer of novels, comic books, films , and cartoons. His cartoon work includes both writing and editing credits. He wrote numerous episodes of GI Joe: A Real American Hero, The Transformers, Thundarr the Barbarian, Jem, Inhumanoids, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Tiny Toon Adventures, Tarzan and the Super 7, Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light, Dungeons & Dragons and Teen Wolf. He also served as a story editor for the GI Joe and Teen Wolf series, and was a story consultant on G.I. Joe: The Movie and My Little Pony: The Movie.   He has a YA adventure novel  called Poor Banished Children Of Eve as well as a story can be found in Analog entitled;  Labor Saving Relations. A few other stories including While You Sleep Computer Mice Earn Their Keep in Analog last year and Apocalypse Velvet and The Kowloon Kupcake.  

Sherri's Playhouse presents a reprise farce style radio play; Kitten!   A farce; a group of freinds meet a new girl, she is quite beautiful, but there is something very different about her. Original songs Cat In The Act and Groovy Tune by singer/song writer; Ray Dafrico!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back award-winning artist; Jeff Sturgeon! Jeff Sturgeon a long time illustrator\game artist and designer. He is an avid outdoors-man and spend as much time in the mountains or on the coast and in the woods as much possible especially near my home in the foothills of the Cascades with his wife Leslie and twin sons Corwin and Duncan. He is an avid reader and collector of books and art.    The Last Cities of Earth! From the worlds in the paintings that he has created, several of the images are of floating cities. The project is an anthology of original short stories, future novels.  The launch of the new franchise includes authors; Steven L Sears, Kevin J Anderson, David Gerrold, Mike resnick, Jody Lyn Nye, Cat Rambo and many others. Last Cities of Earth is a shared world universe depicting humanity's survival in the face of global catastrophe borne out of the mind’s eye of award-winning artist Jeff Sturgeon.  

  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