"Roseann Sheridan is a savvy director who brings a keen eye and a fine language sense to her stage work. She has a most impressive facility with both Shakespeare and contemporary scripts and she is unusually skilled at coaxing performances from young actors."

Susan Sweeney, Professor of Voice and Speech, UW-Madison;
Resident Voice and Text Coach, American Players Theatre;
Nationally recognized Voice and Text Coach
(OSF, Utah Shakes, University of Delaware…)

          "Director Roseann Sheridan offers actors the chance to work straight from the author's text. Her collaborative style encourages a collective search for the truth by all the artists involved . Under Ms. Sheridan's direction, a production will arrive on opening night a living, breathing, organic experience, created on a firm foundation of circumstance, thought and emotional truth."

David Cecsarini, Artistic Director, Next Act Theatre

          "…Roseann understands and appreciates the special demands of intensely poetic texts. She also has an excellent understanding of what it is that allows an actor to be credible, spontaneous and simultaneously disciplined and interesting, and is highly effective in teaching these essential skills at both an undergraduate and graduate level. She is intelligent, articulate, well read, highly organized, splendidly prepared and, above all, effective . You can be utterly confident that she will achieve any goal she sets for herself. She is also honest, sensitive, humane and principled: a team player whose company you would enjoy."

David Frank, Artistic Director, American Players Theatre
(excerpt from letter of recommendation for academic position)

          "Roseann was an agile director and collaborator of the original one-woman show "Makin¹ Mambo" produced by University Theatre (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison). We started with a blank page and blank stage and she navigated the creative process with courage, perseverance and resilience. She was open to all of the ideas that surfaced and used the improvisational scene work and brainstorming to strengthen the story and characters. Roseann is an excellent sculptor of people and material ."

Jodi Cohen, Writer/Performance Artist / Improv Specialist

          "Roseann Sheridan is both a dreamer and a realist - an invaluable balance in a leader. Her deep passion for plays, especially plays of a poetic nature, combined with her brilliant mind and astute understanding of what's possible make her an invaluable artist. Roseann sees a play in all of its glory and its guts. Her time spent as a producer is invaluable in this regard. It trained her in a practical way to assess how to make the very most out of what is always a limited amount of resources, so her productions are never just "partially realized" but honor the spirit of the play, the ability of the artists involved and the theatre for which she is creating her production. She is a deeply talented director with an unwavering desire to improve herself and her art -- the combination is a thrill to watch."

Brenda DeVita, Associate Artistic Director, American Players Theatre

          "I have had the good fortune to work with, and to observe, Roseann Sheridan in a number of capacities: she has directed me, I've produced a play she directed and I've visited her classroom. In all instances I've been impressed by Roseann's passion for the project at hand. She also has integrity, perseverance, a great knowledge of the theatre, an understanding of the artistic temperament and a positive attitude about the whole artistic endeavor."

C. Michael Wright, Associate Artistic Director, Next Act Theatre, Milwaukee;
Stage Director and AEA Actor (Broadway, Regionals)

          "I worked with Roseann at American Players Theatre while she was the Associate Artistic Director and I was the Production Manager. Roseann's greatest strength is her remarkable way of looking at the big picture without losing sight of the details. I was also impressed with Roseann's ability to keep the directors and designers happy about the resources I inevitably had to force their visions back into. It was a true pleasure working with Roseann, and I believe her vision was critical to the steady improvements in artistic and production quality that I witnessed at American Players Theatre during our four years together."

Michael Broh, Production Manager,
American Players Theatre (MFA - Yale University)