Cheryl Ann Allen has opened for such stars as Rodney Dangerfield and Jackie Mason and has performed across the United States and in the UK. She toured as the lead singer of the sixties group, The Shangri-Las. She’s appeared in many one-woman shows – most notably, Sophie Tucker in Person and I’m A New Yorker, both of which she co-wrote with her late great husband, Ian Finkel. Most recently, she wrote and starred in a virtual show, I’m Still Here – The Songs of Sondheim which will be coming to live cabaret soon. She’s been in a number of tribute shows including Everything’s Coming Up Mr Styne with the Ziegfeld Society where she performed Mama Rose repertoire, and in September, Walter Willison’s tribute to Meredith Willson – Here’s Love to the Music Man at 54 Below. As a writer, she penned her memoir Plagued With Goodness, and is the main subject of the documentary, Da Capo, produced by Rinchen Zhuoga which explores the challenges she faced as an actor and her evolution after the pandemic (currently in final stages of edits.) Most recently, she’s excited to have completed her first novel, A Child is Missing.