How do we heal? How do we gather the pieces of our lives and create rituals of renewal?

In Good Girl Gone Single, Sherilynn Cherry invites audiences into a bold, funny, and deeply personal journey through heartbreak, self-discovery, and transformation. Blending poetry, storytelling, humor, and ritual theatre, Cherry explores the realities of divorce, dating, motherhood, and the often messy process of rebuilding a life after it has been broken open.

What begins as one woman’s story becomes a shared meditation on identity, resilience, and wholeness. With honesty and heart, Cherry transforms personal experience into communal reflection, asking what it means to move through pain without being defined by it—and what it might look like to reclaim “single” not as a loss, but as a return to self.

Presented as part of ROŪGE’s Arts All Over Series, Good Girl Gone Single creates space for laughter, recognition, release, and renewal. It is a theatrical ritual for anyone who has had to begin again.

About the Creator

Sherilynn Cherry is a Registered Drama Therapist, Theatre Professor and Playwright. She has an MFA in Script and Screenwriting and an MA in Theatre from Regent University. She also has a BA in Dance/Theatre from Old Dominion University. Her therapeutic initiatives encompass work with marginalized communities, women and those who are in need of a “rest revolution.” Through her therapeutic creative arts program, Act and Chat and curriculum development that provides trauma-informed mental health support to high school theatre students and performing artists. She has over 20 years of experience as a theatre director and dance teacher in both secondary and post-secondary education. Sherilynn has a self-revelatory one-woman show entitled, “Good Girl Gone Single,” that has been featured in Fringe festivals along the east coast to rave reviews. The piece explores her healing journey from brokenness to wholeness through rest, ritual and community. She has many works in-progress that she develops through Z Playwright's Lab, a Zeider’s Theatre entity whose efforts featured her in The Dramatists Guild publication in 2021. She is also a member of the Virginia Playwrights Forum and her play, Peace of Still, received the Proteus Festival Audience favorite award in 2024 and was a semi-finalist for The Drama League Fellowship and features a central character who is struggling with self-identity and self-acceptance. Sherilynn is also a UCLA-certified Socio-Emotional Arts facilitator in the areas of drumming, music, poetry, dance, and theatre. Sherilynn is the mother of three amazing children and resides in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia.