Director Cheryl Snodgrass talks about the Playwright's Lab

Cheryl Snodgrass returned to Roanoke in June of 2011 to direct another new play written by a student in the Playwright's Lab at Hollins University—Frogger, by Adam Hahn. In 2007, Cheryl directed The Third Wish by Todd Ristau as part of the Norfolk Southern Festival of New Works at Mill Mountain Theatre and has since directed one or more new plays in Roanoke each year, helping to make our city a nationally recognized center for new play development.

Snodgrass has worked extensively with playwright Jeff Goode as director, actor and producer. She directed the premiere productions of Poona the F***dog and other plays for children and The Eight: reindeer monologues, among others. She's directed and/or produced premier works by Rebecca Gilman, Brett Neveu, Todd Ristau, David Cerda, Maura Campbell, Robert Gibbs and Kenley Smith. She has been Jeff Recommended for Die! Mommie, Die! and Poseidon! An Upside Down Musical as co-author. Most of 2010 was spent developing Big Top JoJo & His Towering Show of Wonders presents The Phenomenal Phantasmagoria as co-creator and director.

Cheryl has been a guest artist at Lawrence University and a guest speaker at Hollins University. She was a founding member of No Shame Theatre, The Unusual Cabaret and Les Enfants du Mais.

She will return in January 2012 to direct The Emancipation of Alabaster McGill by Jeff Goode and again in June to direct To the New Girl From the Former Mrs. ___________: Sound Advice for My Husband's New Wife or Mistress written by our own MFA playwright Samantha Macher.

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