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Awards

2018 Stage Raw Winner, Best Actress, I Go Somewhere Else

2016 SFBATCCA Nominee, Best Ensemble, Low Hanging Fruit

2015 NAACP Theatre Award Nominee, Best Ensemble Cast-Local, Low Hanging Fruit

2015 NAACP Theatre Award Winner, Best Ensemble Cast, Flyin' West

2015 Stage and Screen SCREENIE AWARD LA: Memorable Performance by a Lead Actress, Flyin' West

Credits - Theatre

A HIT DOG
WILL HOLLER

Originated the role of GINA in this co-production between Playwrite's Arena and

Skylight Theatre in Los Feliz, CA. 

I GO SOMEWHERE ELSE

Originated the role of REDA in this abstract family drama by Inda Craig-Galvan at Playwrite's Arena in Los Angeles.

Won BEST ACTRESS at the 2018's STAGE RAW awards for this production.

LOW HANGING FRUIT

Originated the role of ALICE in the Los Angeles debut at the Zephyr Theatre and then reprised the role in San Francisco the following year.

Nominated for BEST ENSEMBLE for the 2015 NAACP Theatre Awards and

Nominated for BEST ENSEMBLE for the 2016 SFBATCCA Awards.

FLYIN' WEST

Played the role of SOPHIE in Pearl Cleage's masterpiece about a family of former slaves

surviving in the American West.

Won BEST ENSEMBLE CAST at the 2015 NAACP Theatre Awards.

DAUPHIN ISLAND

Originated the role of KENDRA in Jeffrey Chastang's world premiere at The Alabama Shakespeare Festival.

KING LEAR

as REGAN at The Alabama Shakespeare Festival.

MACBETH

in multiple roles of LADY MACDUFF and WITCH at The Alabama Shakespeare Festival.

MERRY WIVES OF
WINDSOR

MISTRESS PAGE at The Alabama Shakespeare Festival 

THE TROJAN WOMEN

as ANDROMACHE in the world premiere of this new translation of the Trojan Women, commissioned and produced at The Alabama Shakespeare Festival. 

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

playing CALPURNIA at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival.

COMEDY OF ERRORS

playing ADRIANA in several productions of "Comedy" at Idaho Shakespear festival and The Boarshead Theatre in Ann Arbor, MI.

MIDSUMMER
NIGHT'S DREAM

Cheri has played TITANIA in multple productions and remounts of this Beatles inspired prodcution, produced multiple years at the Idaho Shakespeare Festival and the Great Lakes Theatre Festival in Cleveland, OH.

CYMBELINE

CAIUS LUCIUS in the Indaho Shakespeare Festival's production.

ROMEO AND JULIET

LADY MONTAGUE in this production at the Idaho Shakespre Festival.

Credits - Improvisation and Sketch Comedy

GLOP meets GLOG

Originating at The Groundlings Theatre in Los Angeles, this hilarious and high energy puppet

and improv show was also featured at 2024's Sketch Fest in San Francisco.

REQUIEM FOR THE
AMERICAN DREAM

A satirical sketch comedy show at The Second City Hollywood which explored the good, the bad and the ugly of the promise of the American Dream through the lens of those who are so often excluded from it.

THE SECOND CITY:
Resident Company Member

 

Cheri is an alumni of the Main Stage sasts of Second City Detroit and Second City Cleveland, where she improvised and wrote multiple comedy reviews and sharpened her comedic and satirical skills as both an improvisor and a writer.

KA-TET: MIDWORLD
LIFE CRISIS

A 3 person sketch comedy show written by the cast, inspired by Stephen King's Dark Tower series,

play-off basketball, pregnancy and cats meowing selections of the Star Wars score.

DETROIT SANDWICH

Cheri's ongoing Los Angeles based improvisational group  Formed in 2015 and still going.

@Cheri Lynne VandenHeuvel

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