Sherry Landrum has been teaching acting and improvisation techniques almost as long as she has been practicing the crafts herself.
Landrum first walked the boards of the Chattanooga Little Theatre as a 9-year-old actress and not long after she was teaching theater to kids through the city’s Parks and Recreation summer programs.
After marrying Rex Knowles, the two pursued professional acting careers. Along the way, they found themselves in teaching roles, first in Los Angeles and later in New York.
In New York, they were invited to lead classes at the famed New Actors Workshop, a two-year professional actor training program founded by George Morrison, Mike Nichols and Paul Sills.
A little more than a decade ago, Dr. Jim Catanzaro approached them about starting an actor training program at Chattanooga State Community College. The opportunity to start something new was too good to pass up, so they moved back in 2002.