Chatting with Sherri
Chatting With Sherri! Join Sherri as she chats with writers, actors and other artists about their work. A fun relaxing chat with all kinds of amazing exciting creative people. We also have a series shows under the umbrella of Sherri’s Playhouse; where playwrights and actors get a chance to strut their stuff! The home of The Chatty Award for most live listens and downloads! Our sponsor is Writers of The Future, they have a free place to send a short story and if your finalist they send you to big gala, it is a terrific experience. Please FOLLOW, RATE, and REVIEW!
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Tuesday Jan 07, 2020
Tuesday Jan 07, 2020
Chatting With Sherri welcomes back award winning author; Lee Murray!
Lee Murray is a multi-award-winning writer and editor of science fiction, fantasy, and horror (Sir Julius Vogel, Australian Shadows), and a two-time Bram Stoker nominee. Her works include the Taine McKenna military thriller series (Severed), and supernatural crime-noir series The Path of Ra co-authored with Dan Rabarts (RDSP) Lee lives with her family in New Zealand where she conjures up stories from her office overlooking a cow paddock. Her latest book is Dawn of the Zombie Apocalypse!
She has taken part in Sherri's Playhouse with The Thief's Tale, which is a very popular play!
Website https://www.leemurray.info/
Twitter @leemurraywriter
Thursday Jan 02, 2020
Thursday Jan 02, 2020
Chatting with Sherri welcomes award winning science fiction writer Shaene Siders!
Shaene Siders was recently nominated as a finalist for the 2020 Humanitas Prize! She is an award-winning action and science fiction writer who geeks out over swords, sorcery, and superheroes. Never read her scripts without a helmet! Her credits include Marvel's Avengers Assemble, DC Super Hero Girls, the Emmy Award winning Amazon series Niko and the Sword of Light, and Netflix’s Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac. She has also written for the Jim Henson Company, Universal Studios, PBS, The Discovery Channel, the Herokins game, the U.S. Military, and NASA.
Monday Dec 30, 2019
Monday Dec 30, 2019
Sherri's Playhouse presents a 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....
Tuesday Dec 17, 2019
Tuesday Dec 17, 2019
Chatting With Sherri welcomes back author Wulf Moon!
Wulf Moon is an Olympic Peninsula award-winning writer. His stories have been published in Third Flatiron anthologies, as well as in Science World, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2, Writers of the Future Vol. 35, Future Science Fiction Digest, and in Deep Magic.
He has won over thirty awards in writing, including the Critters Annual Readers' Choice Award for Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Story of 2018, and the international Writers of the Future Contest.
His latest short story, “Cold Iron,” is published in the anthology Infinite Lives: Short Tales of Longevity by Third Flatiron Publishing.
Moon is podcast director for Future Science Fiction Digest.
His story “Super-Duper Moongirl and the Amazing Moon Dawdler” is on SFWA’s Recommended Reading List for the current Nebula Awards.
Thursday Dec 12, 2019
Thursday Dec 12, 2019
Chatting With Sherri welcomes author and magician Diana Zimmerman!
She has been a performer, writer, and businesswoman since the age of eight, when she invested all of her resources into a small magic trick. With a capital outlay of forty-seven cents, Diana parlayed her investment into a spectacular 25-year career as “America’s Foremost Lady Magician.”
She has authored seven books—three “Kandide” novels (www.kandide.com), two business books, and two biographies. She was a three-time nominee for Los Angeles “Woman of the Year;” an Ernst and Young “Entrepreneur Of The Year” finalist, and awarded a “Lifetime Achievement” award by the Academy of Magical Arts/Magic Castle. An avid collector of faery art, some of her pieces date back to the 1700s.
Her passion, however, is as an animal rights activist. A vegan, she works tirelessly to promote and improve animal welfare.
Tuesday Dec 10, 2019
Tuesday Dec 10, 2019
We get to chat with Lisa Russell about life in the Malibu Colony and Cary Grant!
Lisa grew up in Malibu, California some of her classmates were Emilio Estevez, son of Martin Sheen, Jill Selsman, daughter of Carroll Lynley. Tiffany Mitchum, granddaughter of Robert Mitchum to name a few school chums.
Later years, while attending Marymount High School, she became acquainted with CeeCee Durante, daughter of Jimmy Durante, Bridget Kelly, Gene Kelly's daughter and Courtney Lemmon, Jack Lemmon's daughter.
However, her closest friendship was with Jennifer Grant, daughter of Cary Grant and Dyan Cannon. they met at Carden Malibu and quickly forged a bond over they're common love of horses. Lisa and Jennifer would spend countless hours riding, watching horse shows and collecting anything related to the equestrian world.
From 1975 to 1980, Jennifer and Lisa were inseparable Cary would come in and play games, dance and tell jokes. Her nickname for Cary was rabbit. So, one night after Cary told us one of our favorite jokes about a rabbit. She just started calling him rabbit. He even made up a little funny character voice for rabbit.
She has many more tales to tell, listen in!
Thursday Dec 05, 2019
Thursday Dec 05, 2019
Chatting With Sherri welcomes back award winning author Eileen Mueller!
Winner of two Sir Julius Vogel Awards for Best Youth Novel (2016) and Best New Talent (2017), Eileen Mueller lives in New Zealand, on the side of a hill, with her four dragonets. In 2014 & 2015, she had fun organizing Wellington’s Storylines Family Day for thousands of kids – a festival bringing books alive through performances, crafts, and fun activities with kiwi authors and illustrators.
Eileen has won SpecFicNZ’s Going Global and the New Zealand Society of Authors’ NorthWrite Collaboration literary awards and is a New Zealander of the Year Local Hero medalist. She was also a finalist in the 2017 Romance Writers New Zealand Chapter Short Story contest.
Tuesday Dec 03, 2019
Tuesday Dec 03, 2019
Chatting With Sherri welcomes back John Alsedek!
Suspense ran for an unprecedented 20 years and 900-plus episodes before finally going off the air on September 30th, 1962- a date that is widely considered the end of radio’s ‘Golden Age’.
Fifty years later, John C. Alsedek and Dana Perry-Hayes revived the series, with all-new stories and a style reminiscent of the original without being a copy. It has also been nominated three times for the Peabody Awards, as well as for the Parsec Awards, the Young Artists Awards, and the Young Entertainer Awards. And most recently they were nominated for Voice Arts Awards!
Friday Nov 22, 2019
Friday Nov 22, 2019
Sherri's Playhouse presents Mabel of the Anzacs 2 by Mary D. Brooks!
Adapted by Mary for the radio theater from her new novel, Mabel of the Anzacs part two is about 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. In this second part they confront each other and find out they are more alike then either could have ever known.
I would like to thank John Alsedek and Ty Pickett for all the hard work in editing this radioplay.
Support the radio playhouse; https://www.patreon.com/rithebard
Tuesday Nov 19, 2019
Tuesday Nov 19, 2019
Chatting With Sherri welcomes music producer, song writer and musician Ron Pullman!
Ron Pullman will chat about bringing JIMMY CARTER from BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA (Hailed as "gospel titans" by Rolling Stone) are about to release their new song – “I AM WITH YOU STILL.” Legendary producer, engineer and performer, Alan Parsons lends his artistry to the production of the music.
This new inspiring and empowering song, Jimmy has recorded, features vocals from AIDB choir (Alabama Institute for the Def and Blind where Jimmy grew up) and Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, is set to release this summer.
When Mr. Pullman heard about Jimmy Carter’s history he arranged for the singer to return home (to AIDB). It was something Mr. Carter wanted to do but could never quite get there. Ron Pullman made it happen and it’s an interesting and heartwarming story that turned into a major event!
This interview was recorded earlier.