Sherilynn Castel is an actor, writer, director and educator. She has a BA in Dance/Theatre from Old Dominion University where she was a recipient of the Eva May Morris Dance Scholarship. Sherilynn also has an MA in Theatre and an MFA in Script and Screenwriting, both from Regent University. She has over 20 years of experience as a theatre and dance teacher in both secondary and post-secondary education. In 2021, she coached her students (mostly freshman) to a Virginia State One-Act Championship, where her team won a historical state runner-up victory. She is a conference-presenter and curriculum developer having presented at the Hip-Hop Literacies Conference at Ohio State University and most recently her proposal, “Hip Hop and Theatre: Its Characters and Stories” was accepted by the Southeastern Theatre Conference. She was commissioned to develop and implement curriculum for the Towne Group, REAP , and Community Outreach Coalition, all community non-profit organizations. She is a theatre professor and has many works in-progress that she develops through Z Writes, a Zeider’s Theatre entity whose efforts featured her in The Dramatist, A Dramatist Guild of America publication. She is also a member of the Virginia Playwrights Forum.
Her one-woman show, Good Girl Gone Single, has played at multiple fringe festivals along the east coast to rave reviews. Her play, Peace of Still, received the Proteus Festival Audience favorite award in 2024. She is a Drama Therapy practitioner, member of the North American Drama Therapy Association, and founding owner of Act and Chat, a therapeutic creative arts program. She is also a UCLA-certified Socio-Emotional Arts facilitator.
Sherilynn is the mother of three amazing children.