Margo Lee Sherman
Margo Lee Sherman is an internationally known performer of solo dramas and a formative member of the BREAD AND PUPPET THEATER. She has created more than 30 solo dramas and performed at numerous international theater festivals in Eastern and Western Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. Ms. Sherman created the major women’s roles in the BREAD AND PUPPET THEATER and toured with the company in the USA, Europe, North Africa and Iran. Many Bread and Puppet shows were built for Ms. Sherman to perform.
She was the first actor permitted to perform the plays of Samuel Beckett, (NOT I and FOOTFALLS), directed by Lawrence Sacharow, in the former Czechoslovakia after a 20 year ban on Beckett's work. In New York the show was presented at THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY and LA MAMA. The New York Times hailed her performance “As spoken by Ms. Sherman, it is a voice crying in the wilderness.” NOT I is featured in WAITING FOR BECKETT, an award-winning documentary that has been shown nationally on PBS, in France and at the BECKETT FESTIVAL at Lincoln Center. The film can be seen on YouTube.
Ms. Sherman teaches THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MASK, a workshop based on 10 years' experience performing with the BREAD AND PUPPET THEATER. She uses face masks made by Peter Schumann. She has taught at colleges and universities in the USA and at meetings and festivals in Iraqi Kurdistan, Cuba, and Mexico.
Ms. Sherman's show WHAT DO I KNOW ABOUT WAR?, directed by Andrea Maddox, is based on first-hand accounts of American Soldiers in Iraq and Interviews with their families. She has performed this show throughout the USA and at international theater festivals in Egypt, Ukraine, Colombia, Cuba, and Mexico. "Brilliant, surreal, like eaves dropping on a small, sorrowful town."- The New York Times. "A harrowing, heart-wrenching performance." - The Daily News Cairo.
Ms. Sherman’s show A NIGHT WITHOUT A BLANKET, directed by Juanita Lara, is a solo dramatization of two stories, “The Slope” and “A Present for the Holiday” by the famed Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani from his book, PALESTINE’S CHILDREN. In 2018 Ms. Sherman was a special guest from the USA, and performed at the 3rd International Theater Festival Without Borders in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. "Ms. Sherman demonstrates her mercurial ability to slip into a variety of voices and bodies that people Kanafani's world. She has found a very important voice to impart this story to us." - The New York Theatre Wire. Currently she is an artist resident at the award winning, THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY.
She was the first actor permitted to perform the plays of Samuel Beckett, (NOT I and FOOTFALLS), directed by Lawrence Sacharow, in the former Czechoslovakia after a 20 year ban on Beckett's work. In New York the show was presented at THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY and LA MAMA. The New York Times hailed her performance “As spoken by Ms. Sherman, it is a voice crying in the wilderness.” NOT I is featured in WAITING FOR BECKETT, an award-winning documentary that has been shown nationally on PBS, in France and at the BECKETT FESTIVAL at Lincoln Center. The film can be seen on YouTube.
Ms. Sherman teaches THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MASK, a workshop based on 10 years' experience performing with the BREAD AND PUPPET THEATER. She uses face masks made by Peter Schumann. She has taught at colleges and universities in the USA and at meetings and festivals in Iraqi Kurdistan, Cuba, and Mexico.
Ms. Sherman's show WHAT DO I KNOW ABOUT WAR?, directed by Andrea Maddox, is based on first-hand accounts of American Soldiers in Iraq and Interviews with their families. She has performed this show throughout the USA and at international theater festivals in Egypt, Ukraine, Colombia, Cuba, and Mexico. "Brilliant, surreal, like eaves dropping on a small, sorrowful town."- The New York Times. "A harrowing, heart-wrenching performance." - The Daily News Cairo.
Ms. Sherman’s show A NIGHT WITHOUT A BLANKET, directed by Juanita Lara, is a solo dramatization of two stories, “The Slope” and “A Present for the Holiday” by the famed Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani from his book, PALESTINE’S CHILDREN. In 2018 Ms. Sherman was a special guest from the USA, and performed at the 3rd International Theater Festival Without Borders in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. "Ms. Sherman demonstrates her mercurial ability to slip into a variety of voices and bodies that people Kanafani's world. She has found a very important voice to impart this story to us." - The New York Theatre Wire. Currently she is an artist resident at the award winning, THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY.