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ZANESVILLE – Sheryl Wise is a musician, teacher and theatrical person extraordinaire. As such, she gives unique meaning to the term multi-talented.
“Music and theater are in my DNA,” she explained. “With a mother who was a classically trained pianist, teacher, and church musician, a father who played jazz and regularly played in dance bands, was a solo artist, as well as singing in the church choir, a sister who was a church musician, and played or directed many musicals, how could this not be part of who I am?”
Wise was born and raised in Zanesville, graduated from Zanesville High School in 1976, then Otterbein with a degree in music education in 1980. She earned a master’s in education from Muskingum in 1995. She started on her Ph.D. at Ohio University but was sidetracked when her father passed away and she “decided it was more important to take care of my mom who was in her late 70s at the time than to finish my degree.”