Joyce Sherry, English, Dean of Students

B.A. Middlebury College
M.A. S.U.N.Y. Albany

Before coming to York, Joyce Sherry spent her working and waking life as an actor, director, playwright, dramaturge and teacher—in other words a theatre generalist. She has taught acting and directing at the university and conservatory level. After graduating magna cum laude from Middlebury College, Joyce attended the world renowned Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre where she studied with Sanford Meisner. Finding herself suddenly in Albany, New York, and casting about for something to do, she wound up getting her Masters in Theatre History and Literature at the State University there, studying with theatre history mavens Jarka Burian and Roger Herschel. Joyce stuck around at the university to teach for a year after completing her degree, then landed in California where she soon became attached to The Western Stage. There she had some wonderful opportunities, including working with Ray Bradbury on an adaptation of his novel Something Wicked This Way Comes; assisting in the development of the three part, nine hour long production of East of Eden; and lots of acting, directing and teaching. It was here she came to realize how much she loved teaching teenagers. Joyce joined the York faculty in 1998. She has been known to say, “It’s the wonderful students at York who make it possible for this night person to happily get up at the crack of dawn every day.”