Sheri Sanders

Sheri Sanders is an actor, singer, and founder of Rock the Audition. In 2004, Sheri noticed that the radio was changing the climate of musical theatre and created a masterclass in auditioning for rock musicals. The class became a hit in New York City, and Sheri immediately became the world's preeminent popular music repertoire coach. In 2011, she was the first author to publish a book on the new relationship between popular music and musical theatre. The first edition of Rock the Audition...See more

Sheri Sanders is an actor, singer, and founder of Rock the Audition. In 2004, Sheri noticed that the radio was changing the climate of musical theatre and created a masterclass in auditioning for rock musicals. The class became a hit in New York City, and Sheri immediately became the world's preeminent popular music repertoire coach. In 2011, she was the first author to publish a book on the new relationship between popular music and musical theatre. The first edition of Rock the Audition brought her to over eighty musical theatre programs in seven years, providing students, teachers, and coaches the skills to successfully research, prepare, and perform all styles of popular music currently represented on Broadway. Four years ago, Sheri took her book and turned it into a new interactive online rock musical theatre training program. This program continues to make it possible for individual professional performers and coaches, entire musical theatre programs, and now teens, to study directly with Sheri from every corner of the world. Sheri's performance techniques have led her students to the Broadway, touring, and regional productions of Mean Girls, Oklahoma! (2019 revival), The Lightning Thief, Jagged Little Pill, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Hamilton, Waitress, SpongeBob Squarepants, Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, A Bronx Tale, Kinky Boots, School of Rock, Spring Awakening (2015 revival), Motown, The Last Ship, Jersey Boys, Diner, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Memphis, Rock of Ages, Sister Act, Mamma Mia!, American Idiot, Wicked, Rent, Hairspray, Legally Blonde, and Regina Spektor's Beauty, among others. Her students have also booked a variety of television shows and television musicals, including Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, The Wiz Live!, The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again, Grease: Live, Hairspray Live!, The Voice, Empire, The X Factor, American Idol, Glee, and The Glee Project; and most recently, the film West Side Story, directed by Stephen Spielberg. Sheri professionally arranges audition cuts on Musicnotes. She lives in a treehouse in Brooklyn. See less