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"Sensitive and moving, whilst managing to portray, with endearing humour, the woes of grief and girlhood" "a case of saving the best for last" "lyrical and vivid moment of storytelling" "the strongest casting I have ever witnessed" |
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Cherry is a performer, writer, theatre-maker, facilitator, and spoken-word poet, born and raised in London, with experience working across the UK and Europe with companies such as Battersea Arts Centre, the National Theatre, Contact Manchester, Young Identity, Apples and Snakes, Boundless Theatre, and Kulturzentrum dasHaus.
Often writing around themes of legacies and inheritances, violence, grief, identity and the body, they are interested in creating work that is collaborative, interdisciplinary, socially engaged and electric. She is currently studying English and Creative Writing at the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. Cherry is 1/3 of BOY Theatre, a ground-breakingly silly and socially engaged theatre company made up of fellow audition rejects, Maria Telnikoff and Kit Miles. BOY are associate artists of Pleasance Theatre Trust 2026-2028. They are currently working on their debut show, 'CAMPitalism: 3 Gays Try To Fix The Economy', which they plan to take to the Edinburgh Fringe festival in 2026. Her debut play 'Photographs' was produced first in 2023 by Burnt Orange Theatre and again in 2024 by Mad Jacks Theatre, earning three 4 star reviews. As a poet, she has performed at events such as Jawdance, One Mic Stand, Wilderness Festival and the National Poetry Collective Showcase. Cherry's work has been featured on BBC Radio London's 'The Scene with Alice Dale' and was selected for the 2022 Outspoken Poetry Prize longlist in the Performance Poetry Category. From 2019-2023, she was a member of Boundless Theatre's Advisory Group which works with the company, aiming to help them fulfil their goal of creating theatre for young people and radically supporting the next generation of theatre-makers and creatives. In 2023, Cherry launched her podcast, The Exam Hall. Each episode, she is joined by a guest to answer a question from what is known as the hardest exam in the world, the All Souls Fellowship Exam. |
