Sheri Mann Stewart

Sheri, Actor/Director/Writer/Filmmaker and founder of the new Mann Woman Productions, LLC, has been a Film/TV professional for over 40 years, including her training as an actor by Stella Adler, one of the most famed Master teachers of our time. Recent and upcoming screen performances include Tyler Perry's "A Fall From Grace" (her third film for Mr. Perry) and a second season Guest role on the Starz TV series Hightown. Sheri is a proud member of AWD, The Alliance of Women Directors. Her most recently directed film, EXIsT, is in post-production as of 2/2021. As the director of the short, "When We Were", she received the Best Cinematography Award for DP Robert Vardaros as well as being selected for the Best Of 2018 and receiving a nomination for Best Original Score out of 90 films in the 2018 48 Hr. Project in Atlanta. Sheri is Co-Producer of the feature and multi-media production "Becoming a Man in 127 Easy Steps" with Director Andrea James and starring Scott Turner Schofield, which screened as part of Tribeca Film Fest. and L.A. Outfest 2020 . She received a double-major degree with honors at age 19 from the respected Catholic University of America's Theater and Psychology programs, later completing a Master's in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University. In recent years, she has been developing her Directing and production career, with completed shorts and the Italian-US feature "Bullied to Death" (Co-Producer/Featured talent) receiving recognition and awards at festivals worldwide and with TV productions and features in development and participation as an Industry expert on numerous panels and as moderator at film festivals and other Industry events. She has been directed on screen in comedic and dramatic supporting and starring roles by such luminaries as Jeffrey Blitz, Mike Newell, Jamie Babbit, Tyler Perry, Peter Segal and numerous talented young directors whose names will be familiar someday. She has acted with and opposite such box office stars as Jack Lemmon, James Garner, Janet Jackson, Esai Morales, James Earl Jones and Dwayne Johnson and numerous highly talented, lesser-known colleagues. Directors and critics have agreed that over 4 decades of working and continuing to train in the craft have resulted in powerful performances time after time: "...an under-appreciated performer who garnered well-deserved attention...unsentimental performance", Backstage; "her portrayal of Lindsey is heart-wrenching" Atlanta Journal-Constitution; "Stewart's performance is brave and subtle -- no pathos or cheap sentiment here", Southern Voice, etc. Over time, Sheri has also become a distinguished production acting and vocal coach and teacher of acting and voice to students of all ages in NY and Atlanta via her positions on the Acting Faculty at the Tony Award Winning Alliance Theater, Theater Faculty at Emory University, Visiting Lecturer on Creativity at the Goizueta Business School at Emory, Film Faculty at The Art Institute, and as voice teacher at Baruch College and Acting Instructor at her private studio in Atlanta. She is also honored to have been chosen for several years to be a judge for Kenny Leon's True Colors Theater's August Wilson acting competition and for the GA Governor's Honors Program in Theater. She volunteers with Canine Cellmates, bringing the art of improvisation and other acting and Industry skills to improve the lives of incarcerated men. Born and raised in Georgia (Atlanta and Athens), Sheri began acting in major theater productions as a child, debuting as Baby June in Gypsy at age 8 at the University of Georgia. In recent years, she starred in 5 Indie shorts which have proceeded to the festival circuit, receiving numerous awards: comedies "Plan B" and "Small Talk" and dramas "The Way of Justice", "Red" and "Insanity du Jour", and she played Professor Stewart in Tyler Perry's "Why Did I Get Married" and "Why Did I Get Married Too", both opening at the top of the box office. Sheri is a busy political activist and co-founder of grassroots social justice groups and was elected as a Delegate to the 2012 Democratic National Convention. She is a lover of fine wine, fine food and fine people and is the proud mother of actors Tendal Mann and Royce Mann and is spouse to Barry Stewart Mann. Sheri makes her home in GA for family reasons. She is committed to traveling wherever worthwhile projects take her, so far including Italy, Canada, New Orleans, New York, California, Tennessee, North Carolina, Michigan, and Florida.