Normandy Sherwood is a theater maker who has been building worlds in NYC for two decades. She is a writer, a director, and a scenographer/costumer. Her shows include PSYCHIC SELF DEFENSE; Beast Visit; Madame Lynch; Ruffles, or, a Progression of Rakes; Tiny Hornets; Permanent Caterpillar; Gentleman’s Choice and The Golden Veil, and they have been presented by The New Ohio Theatre, Rubulad, HERE, The Kitchen, The Brick, The Public Theater and others. These works have been developed through residencies at at HERE, MacDowell, Yaddo, Millay Arts, Mercury Store and others. With Craig Flanagin she makes no-wave musical spectacles for their theater company, The Drunkard's Wife and their band God Is My Co-Pilot. From 2001-2017 she was a co-artistic director of The National Theater of the United States of America (R.I.P.) and with this company she toured the U.S., won an OBIE award and published a book called A New Practical Guide to Rhetorical Gesture and Action (53rd State Press). As a costume designer she has designed for Faye Driscoll, Tina Satter, Young Jean Lee, Rachel Chavkin/Anne Washburn, Kristin Marting and more. Other recent design for theater: scenographer/co-creator of Theater in Quarantine’s Nosferatu, a 3-D Symphony of Horror; visual designer on Bailey Williams and Emma Horwitz’s Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian Erotica in the Woods and CHILD’s 1-800-8592-113592; costumes and props for the Hearth’s racecar racecar racecar. Her work has been nominated for Henry Hewes Design awards multiple times. Her children's book, ANIMALS vs. FURNITURE (illustrated by Jesse Hawley) was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2013.She is a Clinical Associate Professor in Expository Writing at NYU and has an MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College. Shows in the works: The Mushroom (a pageant of the forest floor), with Nikki Calonge; All trees are hardest to feel terrible (an opera) composed by Craig Flanagin; and a new play called Sob Story.