“From the Motherland to the Promised Land” 

 A soul-wrenching, original musical, monologue that chronicles the African American Worship experience from Africa to the cotton fields to the Underground Railroad to the church.

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BIOGRAPHY

Celebrated as an anointed and versatile performer and speaker, Sherre has performed before groups as large as 10,000.

What endears audiences to Sherre Miller Bishop is her anointing. Sherre puts her heart into anything she does. Sherre is thrilled to be asked to share From the Motherland to the Promised Land with audiences. In addition to 'Motherland. Bishop has written numerous Christian skits, monologues, and plays including: How I Got Over, Certainly Lord and a Black history series entitled Just Like Me. She performed in Ossie Davis' stage classic Purlie as Lutiebelle at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville. She wrote and performed in The Great Train Ride (Willie Ruth) a one-woman show about a Christian whose formula for salvation brings laughter disappointment and enlightenment as well as an Easter play, Hands, a multi-dimensional blend of Biblical and modern-day characters.

Sherre’s Christian drama ministry takes her across the United States sharing her gifts. Besides drama, Bishop's professional skill set includes public relations, media coordination, and voice-over talent. A newsbrief anchor and public affairs director at WB-channel 58 until 1999, her extensive background in television and radio news reporting includes stints in Milwaukee, Raleigh, Memphis, Nashville, and as a local stringer for the Washington-based BET News.

She graduated magna cum laude from American Baptist College with a Th.B. in Bible Theology and also holds a B.S. Degree in Speech Communications and a Master's in English from Tennessee State University, where she serves as director of public relations. Bishop is a sought after speaker, orator, and performer.

She thanks God for her mentor and mother Mrs. Carrie Pillow and the two loves of her life, her husband, Joseph and her son, Joseph, Jr.  Her personal credo is "be true to the one in the mirror.

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