Sherri Small
Actor (Stage, VOC, VO) / Director / Educator / Consent Forward Artist
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Currently Training for Stage Combat Certification
About Me
Sherri Small (she/her) is an award winning actor, director, and educator as well as a Consent Forward Artist.
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She has been the recipient of numerous performance awards for such stage roles as Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Catherine in The Foreigner, Lizzie in The Rainmaker, Gillian in Bell, Book and Candle, Celia in As You Like It, M'Lynn in Steel Magnolias, Charlotte in Moon Over Buffalo, and film roles in Leftovers, Wine and Beer, and The Water's Edge.
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Sherri has been fortunate to perform with such companies as KERA, Kodak, Bravo, The Independent Film Channel, Taco Cabana, Disney, Sea World of Texas, USAA, HEB, and teach with such institutions as the Dallas Community College District, Plano Parks and Recreations, Allen Community Education, and Texas Parks & Wildlife - as well as numerous professional and community theatres.
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Sherri can be found on ACX and FineAway Voices for Voice Over and Narration projects.
As an educator, she has worked in the public school system teaching elementary, middle and high school specializing in directing student musicals, plays, UIL one-act plays, showcases, productions, technical theatre, and IMPROV competitions as well as created numerous summer programs for theatre and musical theatre camps and classes for private and community theatres. Sherri is credited for her work developing and writing the middle school Theatre Arts curriculum for one of the largest school districts in North Texas. Her students and productions have won numerous technical and performance roles.
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A passionate believer in the pursuit of perfecting the art of performance, she is currently working on achieving her stage combat certification.
EDUCATOR Documents - Theatre Arts Curriculum, poster/playbill graphic designs, production photos, and additional Syllabi provided on request
Reviews
The Column
by Carol Rice
It Runs in the Family
"While I consider the farce to be one of the most difficult styles of comedy to tackle, director Sherri Small was able to carry the performance out with fantastic staging, spot on comic timing, and over-exaggerated and bombastic characters...Ms. Small was able to execute and lead each element with grace, and professionalism.
Irish Film Critic
by Lori Buswold
The House of Blue Leaves
"Ms. Small ... absolutely blew me away with their exceptional use of dialect."
The Column
by Kathleen Morgan
Charley's Aunt
"Small’s performance was nothing short of riveting. She expertly captured the air of an older woman coquettishly remembering a lost love. Her manner was dignified and sophisticated, yet bashful as the feelings of her youth flooded her memory, which she made a tangible experience for the audience"
The Column
by Rachel Elizabeth Khorlander
Moon Over Buffalo
"Sherri Small as Charlotte Hay is similarly genius. Since Charlotte is the portion of the duo who is particularly captivated by the possibility of Capra-esque Hollywood stardom, Small has her work cut out for her in expressing a thousand different coexisting emotions, and she handles this with great aplomb. Her energy and focus on the ultimate goal never falter, yet she simultaneously is able to express a wistfulness and softness toward Cunningham's George."
The Column
by Joel Gerard
Steel Magnolias
"Sherri Small is wonderful as M’Lynn. She hit all the right emotional notes for this complex role."
Theater review: 'The House of Blue Leaves'
by Punch Shaw
published 08/18/2015 in Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Best of List
"...mixes stinging comedy with gut-wrenching emotional intensity."
The Column by Nicole Mulupi
Master Class
"How in the world can anyone believably portray such a well-known, larger-than-life diva? Yet, in Sherri Small he (director Shane Hurst) found a gem.
If you listen to the sessions that Callas taught at Juilliard, you will hear the same tone of voice and expression that Sherri Small gives to the character... Small acts, moves and sounds like Callas did during her time at Juilliard, and she delivers the lines with, seemingly, little effort, as though they are her own. Sherri Small contributes a degree of authenticity to the role that makes the play not just an entertaining master class, but it leaves you wanting to know more about the amazing artist upon whose life it is based. – I felt that I actually was watching the real Maria Callas performing, as though this character really was the washed-out singer who could, yet, still feel the power of the theatre and make it come alive inside her."
