Cherielyn Ferguson

Cherielyn Ferguson is a San Francisco Bay Area playwright. She’s a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Playwrights’ Center, Theatre Bay Area, Pear Playwrights Guild, and Play Café of Berkeley. She has studied at American Conservatory Theatre, HB Studio, Pittsburgh Playhouse, and Berkeley Repertory’s School of Theater. Cherielyn participated in the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive and is a past member of the PlayGround-SF writers pool.

Letters from My Father

It was hard to imagine saving too much from my past when there were so many other things I was told to keep. But that’s another story. The story I have to tell today is about something else my mother kept: the dozens of letters she received from my father as he served in WWII.