Chatting With Sherri

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.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes new author; Verna Cyril! Verna Cyril was born on the beautiful island of Saint Lucia, in the Caribbean. From an early age, Verna was fascinated by the written word and she devoured anything in print that she could lay her hands on. As she progressed, her knowledge of the world and the intricacies of human behavior increased and fired her imagination to express herself in the fantasy of conjuring stories that were graphic and spellbinding much to the delight of family members and a growing circle of friends and admirers. "Heart of a Slave," is set in the year 1814. It’s about the heroine, a young woman name Siwhetta who was taken into captivity from her homeland, Africa.  Siwhetta was sold into slavery and subsequently arrived in the West Indies via the Atlantic slave trade. The first chapter gives a vivid description of her voyage through the Atlantic. Upon Siwhetta’s arrival, she is sold to a very wealthy plantation owner named Lady Noelita. Siwhetta who was the daughter of a

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back award-winning film-maker; Tom Konkle! Tom is a talented actor and director his latest is;  Noise in the Middle; After the sudden death of his wife, a grieving father of a severely non-verbal autistic girl seeks experimental therapy where he unknowingly rents an Airbnb with a haunted history. This stirs his daughter's psychic abilities along with his personal demons. The result is a story full of suspense, tension, empathy and a powerful metaphor about the Noise In All Of Us. Tom's won best thriller in the Los Angeles Film Awards for his classically inspired 1940’s noir feature, TROUBLE IS MY BUSINESS.  Directed by and starring Thomas Konkle, the film follows Roland Drake, a Los Angeles Private Investigator trying to untangle a mystery that only lands him in deep trouble.  And Brittney Powell won the Stella Adler award for acting in film!     

Chatting With Sherri welcomes Emily Who! Emily who? Emily WHO! She’s a new Australian children’s singer who just released her debut album, A Day For Adventure – which can be played on itunes/spotify/google music and all other streaming services. She has a live show ready to be toured across Australia when such time allows which she recently performed at preschools in London. When she’s not singing her Emily Who songs, Emily writes and presents the Kur-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra Kids’ Proms performances, children’s shows for the Acacia Quartet and children’s activities at Sydney Symphony family concerts. In 2017 she toured with Poetry in Action to schools across Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong, performing poetry. She volunteers for Storyville and Books In Homes – regularly reading stories for young children. She is also an actor and regularly performs in Australian television and theatre. She received the Emerging Artist award at the 2019 Sydney Fringe Festival. In 2020 Emily was selected for the

Chatting With Sherri welcomes best selling author; Robert  J Sawyer! Science fiction writer and futurist Robert J. Sawyer has been interviewed over 350 times on radio, over 350 times on television, and countless times in print. A member of the Order of Canada, he lives in Mississauga, Ontario (just outside Toronto). Rob is one of only eight writers in history — and the only Canadian — to win all three of the world’s top Science Fiction awards for best novel of the year: the Hugo, the Nebula, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (the full list of such winners: Paolo Bacigalupi, David Brin, Arthur C. Clarke, Joe Haldeman, Frederik Pohl, Kim Stanley Robinson, Robert J. Sawyer, and Connie Willis), and he’s the first author in thirty years to receive a Lifetime Achievement Aurora Award.   According to the Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards, Robert J. Sawyer is the #1 all-time worldwide leader in number of award wins as a science-fiction or fantasy novelist (second place goes to China Miéville; Stephen Kin