Sherri Hamlin:  

College I attended Centre College in Danville, KY outside of Lexington where I majored in Theatre and German. Centre is a liberal arts school, so I studied a lot of other subjects as well. Some were more enjoyable than others, but I believe wholeheartedly in a well-rounded education. You never know when something seemingly obscure might come in handy. I became a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma fraternity and was inducted into the Phi Sigma Iota honorary fraternity for foreign language. I was a Trustee Scholar, John C. Young Scholar, and garnered the Leibniz Prize for German. I also had the opportunity to have one of my papers selected for reading at the KY Theatre Conference of the Southeastern Theatre Conference and had the privilege of being selected as a theatre designer my senior year when I got to serve as the lighting designer for A View from the Bridge. Theatre highlights: I worked as both an actor and a technician, which is somewhat unusual. As a technician I worked on several productions including the jobs of property master, carpenter, master electrician, costumer, stage manager, dramaturg, and lighting designer. I was first cast my freshman year in an original Senior Seminar production as Befana in Breakfast at Epiphany's. My sophomore year I played Mrs. Prentice in What the Butler Saw that I would say qualifies as my most memorable production on several levels. I also got the chance to perform in that production with senior John Conlee as Dr. Prentice. He is an amazing actor that has since gone on to earn a Tony nomination and I am so blessed that I got to perform with him. My junior year I was cast as Halprin et.al in God's Country, which was only the third performance of the play. In my senior year (after a major change in faculty facilitated by the play I was in my sophomore year), I portrayed Susan in Woman in Mind. It was my only major lead and as such, I never got to leave the stage. I did, however, get my pictures in the local paper. German highlights: I had the opportunity to spend a term in Frankfurt, Germany my junior year. The biggest thing that happened was that the first Gulf War started while we were on the plane and we did not find out about it until we landed in Germany. Despite some worries about this, we travelled without incident and did lots of things in Germany. We went to Bonn, Goessweinstein, Berlin and Nordhausen while there. I also got to go to Fulda and Munich on some shorter trips. Because we arrived shortly after the wall fell, we were at an interesting point in history and got to see and do things others had not up until that time. We saw both east and west Berlin and were able to go to Nordhausen, which was in the former East Germany, where we were the first Americans that the families we stayed with had ever seen. They were strangely confused that none of us could speak Russian as that was standard for them. The differences in lifestyle between east and west at that time were staggering. I toured many museums and probably even more churches, including one in Fulda with a saint buried in the basement. I'm not Catholic, but still thought that was pretty impressive. It was an amazing time that I would not trade for anything. Hobbies Singing tops my list of hobbies. Performing is still in my blood and singing is a great way to do that without the time commitment and family interference of theatre. I sing first soprano with the SW FL Symphony Chorus and Chamber Chorus. I was lucky enough to become a member of the elite Chamber and this is my third season singing with them as well. There have been many highlights from my time singing, but these would be some of the biggest--in no particular order: -Singin...Expand for more