Sherry Glaser (born June 7, 1960) is an American actress, noted for
her performance in the Broadway show Family Secrets about a Jewish
family in California.Glaser is also a political activist, who was
arrested for her topless protest against the “immoral injustices of
war†(Breasts Not Bombs), and for opening a Medical Marijuana
Dispensary. In both cases, charges were dropped.She was born in New
York and raised on Long Island. Glaser moved to San Diego in 1978 and
attended SDSU. She developed her improvisational comedy skills with
the feminist comedy group Hot Flashes. She then set out on a solo
performance with the direction and co-writing of her husband Greg
Howells. She is best known for her off-Broadway performance Family
Secrets and her autobiography, Family Secrets: One Woman's Look at a
Relatively Painful Subject, published by Simon & Schuster. She also
writes a weekly Tuesday evening editorial on California station KZYX.
Sherry is also a featured writer in the Anthologies, "Exit Laughing",
"The Other Woman" and "He Said What?" (Warner) edited by Victoria
Zackheim She is also a writer in the Anthology "Warrior Mothers"
Edited by Thais Masur.Sherry met her future husband, Greg Howells,
through her comedy career. At the time Greg was a friend of a friend
of Sherry's next door neighbor. Glaser and Howells' shared passion for
comedy brought them together. Glaser and Howells had their first child
Dana. Sherry then had her second daughter, Lucy. Glaser commented
that, "I had always wanted two (so they could have someone to talk to
about their crazy mother)". Greg Howells disappeared on June 18, 1997.
He was golfing at Rancho Canada when he disappeared.
her performance in the Broadway show Family Secrets about a Jewish
family in California.Glaser is also a political activist, who was
arrested for her topless protest against the “immoral injustices of
war†(Breasts Not Bombs), and for opening a Medical Marijuana
Dispensary. In both cases, charges were dropped.She was born in New
York and raised on Long Island. Glaser moved to San Diego in 1978 and
attended SDSU. She developed her improvisational comedy skills with
the feminist comedy group Hot Flashes. She then set out on a solo
performance with the direction and co-writing of her husband Greg
Howells. She is best known for her off-Broadway performance Family
Secrets and her autobiography, Family Secrets: One Woman's Look at a
Relatively Painful Subject, published by Simon & Schuster. She also
writes a weekly Tuesday evening editorial on California station KZYX.
Sherry is also a featured writer in the Anthologies, "Exit Laughing",
"The Other Woman" and "He Said What?" (Warner) edited by Victoria
Zackheim She is also a writer in the Anthology "Warrior Mothers"
Edited by Thais Masur.Sherry met her future husband, Greg Howells,
through her comedy career. At the time Greg was a friend of a friend
of Sherry's next door neighbor. Glaser and Howells' shared passion for
comedy brought them together. Glaser and Howells had their first child
Dana. Sherry then had her second daughter, Lucy. Glaser commented
that, "I had always wanted two (so they could have someone to talk to
about their crazy mother)". Greg Howells disappeared on June 18, 1997.
He was golfing at Rancho Canada when he disappeared.
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