A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Sheri Bailey moved to California to attend UCLA's graduate playwriting program. Her Summers in Suffolk was workshopped at the 1990 Mark Taper Forum's New Works Festival, and she received a 1993 Individual Theatre Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her other plays include All Kinds of Blue, Dannie 'n Laurence, Murder and Mayhem at the Red River Bar and Walking With a Panther. Her screen adaptation of the award-winning All Kinds of Blue has been optioned by Jasmine Guy's Black 'n White Productions, and the romantic comedy Dannie 'n Laurence was optioned by Halle Berry. Summers in Suffolk had its world premiere in Los Angeles in June 1996. Her newest play, a commissioned adaptation of Nella Larsen's Harlem Renaissance novella, Passing, premiered at the Towne Street Theatre, Los Angeles, in September 1996. Bailey lives in Norfolk, Va., with her daughter, Peyton, and their dog, Max.
