photo by Richard Chon
Director Cheryl King
Feb 2007- Cheryl was featured in an article about female theater owners in NYC in online mag sugarzine.
CHERYL KING is the owner, and artistic and managing director of Stage Left Studio, which is the only solo show repertory theatre in NYC. She is the resident acting coach at All My Children, the Emmy-winning daytime drama at ABC. She was recently included in the 100 Women We Love feature in GO Magazine's June 2008 Annual Pride Issue.
Her performance background includes multiple careers, in vaudeville/burlesque, mime, standup comedy and theatre. Her internationally acclaimed solo show, "not a nice girl", has had runs Off-Broadway in NYC, in Los Angeles and Ft. Collins, CO. Her television credits include ABC's 20/20, Oprah! and Faking It on TLC.
She created Forbidden Kiss, an erotica series with a cast of 8 artists, and regular guest stars, all who contribute original material on a bi-weekly basis. This celebrated show has been running at Stage Left for two years.
She formed her own production company, Cheryl King Productions, in 2000, and has produced several acting retreats, over 300 showcases, and three years of V-Day events. She is the creator of the Left Out Festival, a festival of gay performance art, which recently sold out 12 of 16 shows at Stage Left Studio, and resulted in $2600 donations to Bailey House and GMHC. She also created the Women At Work Festival, which has its second run at Stage Left in October 2008. She is Artistic Director of Sola Voce:Estrogenius at ManhattanTheatreSource
Her innovative Body Language workshop has been a big success since 1998 and she has served as an expert consultant for books and magazine articles, including a major feature in WWD, the magazine.
Ms. King teaches two weekly writing workshops, and has written a book about her technique called “Writing Your Heart Out.” She is a contributing writer to Glenn Alterman’s “Creating Your Own Monologue” and the arts paper Soul of the American Actor. She is an advisory board member of ARIA and a member of the Dramatists Guild In addition to private coaching in acting and writing, she directs the solo shows of Cyndi Freeman, Beth Bongar, Susan Little, Michelle Ramoni, Karen Thibodeau, Cheryl Smallman, Susan Rankus and River Huston
