Cheri Magid writes plays, screenplays, opera librettos, podcasts, children’s television, and erotica.  Her play A Poem and a Mistake has been produced around the country including at HERE and Dixon Place in NYC and will be presented at the Edinburgh Fringe in August 2025.  A Poem, which was also made into a film/play, was originally presented by Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne and featured in the BBC Radio 4 podcast Modern Metamorphoses.  The Sydney Morning Herald says of A Poem, “You’ll never think of classical literature again without these women coming into your head.” Playing Dog, Cheri’s play for young audiences featuring original metal songs, was produced by Little Theatre of Wonder in the summer of 2024 and toured the Hudson Valley.  Her opera Penelope and the Geese was produced at Museum of Asian Art in Corfu, Greece and aired on Autogram, Radio Belgrade 2 in Belgrade, Serbia. The opera, which is composed by Milica Paranosic, has been developed at artistic residencies at Sewanee University of the South and the University of Delaware, and has been awarded grants from Opera America, New Music USA, the Society of Classical Studies and won the 2021 Susana Meyer Creative Arts Award.  She is currently writing the opera Fail Mary, about of one of the most infamous calls in the NFL, with composer Kevin Laskey.  Cheri’s plays have been seen at Primary Stages, New Georges, The New Group, The Women’s Project, Rattlestick, The Keen Company, South Coast Rep, People’s Light and Theatre Company, StudioTenn, The Road Theatre Company and Cincinnati Playhouse among others.   She was the first Susan P. Stroman Playwright in Residence at The University of Delaware and the Tennessee Williams Playwright in Residence at Sewanee University of the South.  She also wrote on the Emmy award-winning children’s television show Arthur and is an Associate Arts Professor of Dramatic Writing at NYU Tisch, where she is also a Public Voices fellow with the OpEd Project.