Person - Sherry Leyden
SHERRY LEYDEN
As a teenager Sherry studied drama at the Independent. She joined NT in 1978 in which year she lent sound equipment for a Workshop All That Fall, stage managed Enemies, and assistant directed a Workshop Death Watch. In 1979 she substituted as Mary in Reedy River, acted in a Workshop Madame de Sade and in Juno and the Paycock. In 1981 as Sherry Ede-Leyden she stage managed The Matchgirls. In 1986 she moved to Auckland NZ where she became an actor, director and playwright.
Sherry's father Peter Leyden submitted scripts to NT including Ming, Sing, Sing and a farce The Sperm Bank. A CPA member, he was Treasurer of the Realist Writers Group and had a long involvement with the progressive movement. He and Elsie Leyden set up a small educational paperbacks publishing business in North Sydney, employing writers such as Dorothy Hewett to script social studies comics for children.
In 2009 Sherry Ede-Leyden attended Goodbye My Love, Goodbye (her reworking of her father’s play Testament about the Rosenbergs' trial and execution) performed as a NT Players in the Pub reading.
