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Writer for stage, screen, and television.

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Cheri Magid is currently writing a scripted podcast, The Classics, which will star Sarah Jessica Parker, for Audible UK. Her film/play A Poem and a Mistake was presented by Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne, featured in the BBC Radio 4 podcast Modern Metamorphoses, and was performed live as a theatre piece at Delaware Rep. The Sydney Morning Herald says of A Poem and a Mistake, “You’ll never think of classical literature again without these women coming into your head.” Cheri’s music-theatre performance piece Penelope and the Geese, composed by Milica Paranosic, was performed at The Museum of Asian Art in Corfu, Greece and aired on Autogram, Radio Belgrade 2 in Belgrade, Serbia. Cheri’s plays have been seen at Primary Stages, New Georges, The New Group, The Women’s Project, Rattlestick, South Coast Rep, People’s Light and Theatre Company, The Road Theatre Company and Cincinnati Playhouse among others. She also wrote for the Emmy-award-winning children’s television show Arthur and is an Assistant Arts Professor in Dramatic Writing at New York University.

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Writing The Classics, a nine-episode scripted podcast for Sarah Jessica Parker and Audible UK.

A Poem and a Mistake (film/play) exhibited in And All that Remained Was Her Beauty, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut

Penelope and the Geese (opera) performed at Asian Art Museum, Corfu, Greece

Penelope and the Geese (opera) performed at Thompson Theatre, Newark, DE

A Poem and a Mistake performed live at Performance Art Series, Sewanee University of the South

A Poem and a Mistake performed live at Delaware Rep, Newark, DE

Screening of A Poem and a Mistake (film/play) at Upstate Films in Association with Bard College

Fail Mary (opera) commissioned by Oberlin College and Opera Columbus

The Lacing Song from the song cycle Laces, Bone and Wire performed by CompCord Chamber Orchestra with Suzanne Vega, Players Theatre NYC

NYU Global Research Institute fellowship, Paris, for the song cycle Laces, Bone and Wire

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The Lacing Song Performed Live

She Grinds Her Own Coffee

Arthur: He Said, He Said 

Penelope and the Geese Teaser

Penelope and the Geese (Excerpt)

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