Multi-awardwinning sheri ratick stroud has over 40 years of experience in theentertainment business. After graduatingfrom the University of Maryland with a degree in Theatre she performed locallyon the dinner theatre circuit and around the DC area. After marriage her family moved to New Jerseywhere she spent 4 years in the administrative offices of the Paper MillPlayhouse, the State theatre of New Jersey, serving as the Director of GroupSales and Volunteer Services. Uponreturning to Washington, DC she was hired by the Kennedy Center for thePerforming Arts to produce the two-week Holiday Festival of communityperformers appearing at the Center during the December holiday season. Leaving there sheri spent 2 years on cable TVas a segment of the Shoppers Club of Virginia where she gained some localnotoriety. Sheri was also part of atraveling children’s theatre troupe as Sheri, the Storyteller along with Gabby,the Mime performing as “Once Upon a Mime”. More recently sheri has been directing plays, winning the Best Directorand Best Production awards for her production of Agnes of God. She also directed “Stuck” which appeared inthe DC Capital Fringe Festival and was awarded 4 out of 5 stars by thereviewers. In addition, sheri was aproducer on the short film, N.O.S.,which became available on Amazon Prime in 2019, and premiered on ShortsTV in2020. In 2010 sheri formed WonderPictures along with Rich West of West Production Services. Their first project “Spanish Lesson” won a silver leaf award at the Mexico Film Festivalin 2011. Their second film “The Last Paperboy” won the silent filmcontest sponsored by Signature Theatre and was a finalist in the Waynesboro(VA) Film Festival competition. More recently sheri produced and acted in themulti-award winning short, “Heroes’ Honeymoon” filmed by WonderPictures. Outside of acting, directing, and producing,sheri has been very active with Women in Film and Video, DC, serving on theBoard and actively participating in their nationally recognized Screenwriter’sConference as the talent coordinator for the script reading segments. She also appears in local films and trainingvideos for clients that include the National Institutes of Health (NIH), theU.S. Army and AMTRAK. She has served asa judge for the DC Shorts Film Festival, for the American University’s MediaThat Matters short script writing contests, for the DC Shortsscript writing contest, and has served on selection panels for grants for the DCCommission on the Arts and Humanities.