Sherry Eaker is the producer of the annual Bistro Awards show and has kept the tradition of the Bistro Awards going since the passing of its creator, Bob Harrington, the first "Bistro Bits" columnist, in 1992. Sherry is the former longtime editor of Back Stage, the performing arts trade weekly that her father, Ira Eaker, founded in 1960. She compiled and edited four editions of the Back Stage Handbook for Performing Artists, and compiled and edited the Cabaret Artists Handbook. Sherry serves on the board and/or is an advisor to the National Theatre Conference, the Cabaret Conference at Yale University, the Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs, the NY Coalition of Professional Women in the Arts & Media, and Theatre Resources Unlimited. She is also the NY representative for the American Theatre Critics Association, and is a member of the Drama Desk, the League of Professional Theatre Women, and NY Women in Film & TV. She is now working with a number of writers and directors developing new works that she hopes to produce for the stage.
Sherry Eaker is the producer of the annual Bistro Awards show and has kept the tradition of the Bistro Awards going since the passing of its creator, Bob Harrington, the first "Bistro Bits" columnist, in 1992. Sherry is the former longtime editor of Back Stage, the performing arts trade weekly that her father, Ira Eaker, founded in 1960. She compiled and edited four editions of the Back Stage Handbook for Performing Artists, and compiled and edited the Cabaret Artists Handbook. Sherry serves on the board and/or is an advisor to the National Theatre Conference, the Cabaret Conference at Yale University, the Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs, the NY Coalition of Professional Women in the Arts & Media, and Theatre Resources Unlimited. She is also the NY representative for the American Theatre Critics Association, and is a member of the Drama Desk, the League of Professional Theatre Women, and NY Women in Film & TV. She is now working with a number of writers and directors developing new works that she hopes to produce for the stage.