Cheryl’s decades as a professional performer have encompassed a wide variety of talents and engagements. She is open to new representation and opportunities for her avocational work in the performing arts. Contact her via email for booking inquiries.
- Improvisational comedy and drama (stage and broadcast)
- Voice acting: Video games and industrials
- Internet television shows (live “actual play” gaming series)
- Video work: short form comedy, industrials, etc.
- Contemporary plays
- Traditional musical theater
- Puppetry (rod and hand, hand, full body, etc.)
Theatrical Highlights
- Professional actor, teacher, and director for 13 years with Seattle’s famous Unexpected Productions improv comedy ensemble
- Original cast member in the hit Star Trek improv parody Where No Man Has Gone Before (2011 – 2019).
- Starred as “Amy” in the world premiere of September Skies (2011), an original play by Jim Moran.
- Founding member of NERDprov, featured repeatedly at Emerald City Comicon, Bumbershoot, and other venues (2010-2020)
Acting Photos (Click for higher resolution)
Vanie Poyey Photography and Michael Doucett Photography
Traditional Theater Review Highlights
September Skies: “But because the writing is taut, witty, and true, and the performances sterling, what might have been a bad TV movie-of-the-week is instead a study in how desperately we flail for what we want during these few short years we call life.” (Seattle Weekly – pick of the week)
Seattle Weekly
September Skies: “In terms of the acting, the show is well played. Foubert and Platz work well together and offer a natural delivery that is engaging and believable. They manage to make the audience believe in the otherwise unbelievable development of their affair.” (Capitol Hill Times)t.
Capitol Hill Times
Something’s Afoot at the New Everett Theatre: “Sweet and innocent ingenue Hope is brought to life by a radiant Cheryl Platz.” (Sam Severn, North County Outlook, April 24 2008)
North County Outlook
voiceover reel
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Voiceover Highlights
- Ava Kadavra in The Sims 2 DS
- Pilot 5 in BATTLETECH (2018)
Starring Cheryl – Short form
These shorter form videos feature Cheryl as the solo actor – one comedic, one dramatic. For Decker Diaries, Cheryl created the character of Ma1nfram3 and improvised the script for Decker Diaries based on what she had learned in rehearsals for Shadowrun as an in-character aid to potential viewers and players.
Long form multi-cam improv
Cheryl is a seasoned performer in Twitch broadcast tabletop role-playing games, many shot in multi-cam studio environments like Shadowrun: Corporate SINs and Death From Above. Two examples are featured here – parental discretion is advised.
Where No Man Has Gone Before: SyFy Wire
Improvised Full Length Parody of Original Star Trek Episodes
Cheryl co-starred in this improvised parody of the original Star Trek series for 9 years, and this was one of the final public performances of the show as seen at Emerald City ComicCon. While comic conventions don’t typically boast full theatrical setups, the No Man cast had experience working with low-production value setups before and was a favorite at the convention. Depending on the episode format, Cheryl’s role would change, varying between a planetary leader, Nurse Chapel, or the original character Lieutenant Jo Michaels.
Suggestions from the audience: Pokémon, British tea time, body odor.
(And yes, the suggestion is deeply ironic given what happened to Cheryl’s career – but the cast had never before and never again did a show with that specific inspiration. This just happened to be the one that got recorded. )
Cupid on Mute: An Improvised Digital Romantic Game Show
Cheryl Platz created, produced, directed, and co-starred in Cupid on Mute in 2021 as a fundraiser for Unexpected Productions, which was struggling to continue to pay rent during pandemic years. Cupid on Mute is a parody of shows like Love is Blind as seen through a pandemic lens – how do we find love from a distance? The cast was a mix of UP ensemble members, former students of Cheryl’s, and Twitch broadcasters.
Cheryl’s design for the show drew on her background in game design, narrative, and improv as well as her experience as a digital broadcaster and graphic designer (the visual design and OBS Studio design was also her work.) The 4-episode broadcast raised as much money for the theater as a traditional run with much less overhead, and demonstrated how audiences enjoyed co-creating narrative with the onscreen actors in a variety of ways.
*The technical difficulties in Episode 2 were a medical emergency – true improv “show must go on,” which caused us to have to adapt in real time.
If you want to see how the chat interacted with the show, visit the Cast and Credits page to see the Twitch replays directly, or visit Medium to read more about Cheryl’s online theatre philosophy.
Demo Reel (2015)