Filmmaker-performer Cheryl Susheel Bibbs (see also imdb for Susheel Bibbs), a native of St. Louis, MO, is an acclaimed touring singer, an author, and an award-winning director-filmmaker. She also head ...Show More
Filmmaker-performer Cheryl Susheel Bibbs (see also imdb for Susheel Bibbs), a native of St. Louis, MO, is an acclaimed touring singer, an author, and an award-winning director-filmmaker. She also heads the new Living Heritage Foundation in Sacramento. Bibbs tours for screenings and performances as an actress and singer, and continues work on Independent films. In music, she graduated from the Boston University School for the Arts in Opera and the New England Conservatory of Music in Vocal Performance. She debuted in Boston's Jordan Hall, sang with many opera companies, including the Santa Fe Opera, where she apprenticed, and The Opera Company of Boston, where she won international acclaim. Bibbs has sung on television and in films, has toured in concert across the US, in Canada, and in Europe and served on the touring rosters of Today's Artists Concerts, The Missouri Arts Council, and The California Arts Council. Today she is known for award-winning PBS documentaries, one-woman touring presentations as an actress, touring recitals on the classical song of black composers, master classes on the Spiritual, and lectures on Mary Pleasant and the Hyers Sisters. Her talents combine in her award-winning films on Black Classical Song (An Unsung Muse), Mary Ellen Pleasant (Meet Mary Pleasant and The Legacy of Mary Ellen Pleaant), and The Hyers Sisters (Voices for Freedom). As of 2018 Bibbs had won an 2 CPB Best Program Awards, an Action for Children's Television Award, a national Emmy, 2 Telly Awards, and 12 Film-Festival documentary awards as a filmmaker-writer-performer. She also received the title "foremost expert on Mary Ellen Pleasant (Mother of Civil Rights in California)" from the Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco and their Highest Commendation, which cited her outstanding contributions to the arts and humanities. Hide
