Sherry Glaser

Sherry Glaser, actress, playwright, author and commentator, wrote and starred in FAMILY SECRETS, the longest running one-woman show in off-Broadway history.

Ms. Glaser has just published a collaborative work with her mother Shelly Glaser; THE FIRST PRACTICAL HANDBOOK FOR CRAZY PEOPLE. Sherry's mother left her a manuscript written from her first hand experience with Mental Illness. After Shelly, (Sherry's mother) passed away in 2010 Sherry was tasked with publishing the manuscript to fulfill Shelly's last wishes.

Sherry edited her mother's work and then added her own chapters on staying sane in a crazy world.

Sherry's Memoir, Family Secrets: One Woman's Look at a Relatively Painful Subject, was published by Simon & Schuster in 1995. THE OTHER WOMAN, Victoria Zackheim's 2007 anthology, (Warner Books) WARRIOR MOTHERS, Thais Mazur's 2004 anthology, (Rising Star Press) HE SAID WHAT/ (2011) all include essays by Ms. Glaser. and EXIT LAUGHING (HOW HUMOR TAKES THE STING OUT OF DEATH) 2012 North Atlantic Books all include Essays by Ms. Glaser.

Born into a family touched by madness, in the Bronx, NY, Sherry Glaser had a choice: become an artist or go crazy like her mother and grandmother before her. Fortunately, she could deftly portray the people in her life and found herself successful instead of in a straight jacket.

Sherry migrated to California in 1978 when she became a student at San Diego State University where she developed her talent for full-disclosure improvisation in the company of Whoopi Goldberg, Mo Gaffney, and Kathy Najimy. She soon joined forces with her husband, Greg Howells, to create her first one-woman show, COPING, which was the springboard for her solo career.

Soon after COPING, Glaser and Howells co-wrote her second play FAMILY SECRETS, which Howells also directed. In it, Sherry played five members of a typical American family based on her father, mother, two sisters and grandmother. The show garnered critical acclaim and awards, including the N.Y. Theatre World Award for Best Debut and L.A.'s Ovation Award, as well as rave reviews (i.e. The New York Times and Variety). Simon and Schuster published FAMILY SECRETS: The Book, based on the play.

Glaser and Howells were developing OH MY GODDESS!: A COMEDY OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS (Oh My Goddess!) in 1997, when Howells disappeared suddenly and literally. With Greg's disappearance shrouded in mystery, still unsolved to this day, Sherry refused offers to take the new show to New York and returned to Mendocino to raise her two young daughters. She has been evolving OH MY GODDESS! for years and still performs it.

Sherry's weekly radio editorials,can be downloaded from her website. (www.sherryglaser.net) She has performed her one-woman shows around the country, from off-broadway to Hollywood, in diverse venues from San Quentin (where she also lead dramatic workshops) and taken her street theatre to the capitol steps in Sacramento to the white house in Washington DC.

Her other stage works include, TAKING THE HIGH ROAD (COMIC CONFESSIONS FROM BEHIND THE CANNABIS CURTAIN), THE BREAST OF SHERRY GLASER and REMEMBER THIS (AN INTIMATE LOOK AT WAR THROUGH THE EYES OF WOMEN).