Cheryl Daro is a Filipino-American Actor, Director and Producer. 

A daughter of immigrants, Cheryl grew up in the Silicon Valley and is proud to be the first-born American citizen in her family. She began singing and playing piano at the age of 6. She studied english, visual arts, graphic design and photography at Academy of Art University in San Francisco before deciding to pursue a professional acting career. While working in LA, she cultivated her passion for storytelling and studied acting at Howard Fine Studio, Beverly Hills Playhouse, Lesly Kahn Studio before completing her training in NYC at Atlantic Theater School in 2009.

Ms. Daro is a proud member of Actor’s Equity. 

Some of her favorite credits include, playing Claire in the Pulitzer Prize winning play, “Proof” at Central Square Theatre in Boston, the second professional company in the US to feature an Asian American Family, performing in the Broadway Hit, “Rock of Ages” as Regina Koontz where she is one of the few Asian American actresses to play the role, and as Gigi Van Tran in the pre-revival production of “Miss Saigon” at the Tony Award winning Signature Theatre in Washington DC. 

Cheryl was an acting instructor at Berklee College of Music Summer Conservatory. She has taught performance workshops and private coaching sessions to performers in the Bay Area, LA and NYC. She specializes in “Acting Through Song”, singing focused on personalization and script analysis. She will be teaching a 5 week intensive this Fall.

She is believer of activism through the arts.

She is the Co-Creator of the Mondays Dark (www.mondaysdark.com), an off-the-cuff variety show raising $10k for a different local charity twice a month. In its 7th year, Mondays Dark has raised over $1 million for over 120 Local organizations in the Las Vegas community. 

In 2017, Ms. Daro and her husband Mark Shunock opened The Space (www.thespacelv.com), not only the home of Mondays Dark, but also a multi-functional charity driven Arts Complex. They hope to continue to cultivate the local performing arts scene by bringing quality theater to Las Vegas, providing a safe place to develop the local young artists, and help bridge the gap between professional and community level theater. 

Through the VDAY Vegas Company, Ms. Daro directed and produced two successful runs of “The Vagina Monologues” at The Space with a cast of 30 people ranging from community leaders to the professional stage performers and raising over $25k for VDAY.org. A charitable organization who supports women’s rights internationally and here in the US. She’s proud to head the Hamiltunes Las Vegas Company and through the Hamilton umbrella, reaches out into the BIPOC communities to share her love for theater and while raising money for The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

Ms. Daro hopes to continue to share her story and the stories of those before her.

Her production company, Marshun Entertainment, is dedicated to developing new works, and assists artists and creators in bringing their projects to life. Ms. Daro is currently developing two Vegas Born interactive/immersive theater pieces and has two under her belt. On the TV/Film side, Cheryl is an Executive Producer on three episodic series in development and working on two short films. 

She hopes to always be able to create art in any medium she can. She hopes she can keep blurring the lines between genders, preferences and ethnicities, as the stories we see on stage and screen are about sharing the human experience.

Because no matter what color our skin is, we are the same at heart. These are stories about all of us.

Credits

REGIONAL: Central Square Theatre: Proof (Claire); For The Record: BAZ (Satie); NCL: Rock of Ages (Regina Koontz); Signature Theatre: Miss Saigon (Gigi); Greenway Court Theater: Jewtopia (Rachel Khan); Gateway Playhouse: Miss Saigon (Gigi); STAGES Theatre: The Wild Party (Madelaine True); MTC Theater Company: 24 Hours: a Rock Musical (Ovation Nomination); CMTSJ: Peter Pan, Chess, Evita, Big: the Musical; CABARET/ BENEFIT: AFAN Black & White Ball, Mondays Dark, Hot Night in the City 2011, Session Series, Upright Cabaret; RECORDINGS: Greenwood the Musical, Officer and a Gentleman the Musical; WORKSHOP: The First Gentleman, Tears of Heaven (Frank Wildhorn), Ed Wood the Monster Musical, Lovelace the Rock Musical; FILM: Jewtopia; Forefathers EDUCATION: Atlantic Theater School, 2009

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