Mendocino Theatre Company presents an Intro to History

5000 years of Patriarchy is more than enough for award-winning actress and author Sherry Glaser, star of Family Secrets, Oh My Goddess, and Taking The High Road. In her new show, Intro to History 101, which runs Jan 22, Feb 5, and 12th at 5:00 p.m. Sherry comically and cleverly dissects the male-driven agenda buried deep in language and the power therein. Sherry spells it out for you in this interactive, rebellious, paradigm-shifting evening of theater.

A thirty-year resident of California and the North Coast, Sherry Glaser was born and raised in New York and is the Star and author of Off-Broadways’ longest-running one-woman show, Family Secrets. She developed her passion for solo performance while practicing improvisation in the early 80s in San Diego in the company of Whoopi Goldberg, Mo Gaffney, and Kathy Najimy.

Glaser then played Ma and Miguel in her onewoman play, Oh My Goddess! Ma was depicted as the Great Jewish Mother of us all, “…reminding us of the simple and sacred nature of life on earth”. In 2004, Glaser collaborated with Thais Mazur on a theater/dance project called Remember This (An Intimate Portrait of War through the Eyes of Women), which debuted in Mendocino and then went on to San Francisco. Glaser wrote another onewoman show called Taking the High Road (Comic Confessions from Behind the Cannabis Curtain) in 2015 after her Medical Marijuana Dispensary and her home were raided by local and Federal agents. Glaser also co-authored a book with her mother, Rochelle (Shelly) Glaser, about their experiences with mental illness, titled The First Practical

Handbook for Crazy People.

Glaser also writes a weekly Tuesday evening editorial on Mendocino County, California, radio station KZYX. Glaser’s writing has been featured in the anthologies Exit Laughing, The Other Woman, He Said What? ( Victoria Zackheim, editor), and Warrior Mothers (Thais Mazur, editor).