Chris Sherman is an accomplished playwright and lyricist. She wrote the book and lyrics for Jack, A Musical Fantasy, produced at The Theater of Universal Images in Newark, NJ, in collaboration with The Henry Street Settlement. Excerpts from the show were even performed at Lincoln Center Out of Doors in NYC.

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Chris was a semi-finalist in the Screencraft Writing Contest and was selected for the 2020 New York Theater Festival. Her other plays include The Inferno, directed by James Rocco and featured in Abingdon Theater Company’s Around the Table Series, as well as Life Alert, which had a successful run at eMBer Women’s Theater in Columbus, Ohio.

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Her third comedy, Maladies, won the CreateTheater New Works Festival and will be produced at eMBer Women’s Theatre in Spring 2025. Currently, her latest comedy, The Mothers, is in development with CreateTheater under the direction of Cate Cammarata.

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Beyond playwriting, Chris has a rich background in theater and writing. She founded and served as Executive Director of The Newburyport Community Players in Massachusetts and spent three years penning a humor column for the Newburyport Daily News. Her work has been published in Penguin’s Book of Italian-American Humor, edited by Regina Barreca, and she regularly contributes essays to The Villager and The West Villager.

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Chris holds an undergraduate degree from Emerson College and a Master’s from New Jersey City University. She is a founding member of CreateTheater and a proud member of The Drama League, Theatre Resources Unlimited (TRU), and The Dramatists Guild.