Sharilyn has had a life-love appreciation for all things comedic.

After briefly working as an entertainment writer, she attended journalism school near Toronto, where she was assigned to cover the weekly standup shows on campus. Interviewing the country’s most seasoned road comics and watching them work one of toughest rooms in the country was invaluable, and she worked hard to conduct interviews that strayed from the typical “were you the class clown?” lines of questioning.

Back in Winnipeg, Sharilyn temporarily put journalism on the back burner while settling into a career in the administrative side of the media, working for CTV, Global TV, and Corus Radio. An active volunteer in the arts, she sat on the board of directors of the West End Cultural Centre, and the board of directors of the Gas Station Theatre / OVCC (the producing body of the CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival).

In 2002, Sharilyn began a five-year stint as the comedy reporter for Uptown, Winnipeg’s entertainment weekly. She also produced and hosted Laugh Tracks, a weekly prime-time radio show about comedy, which aired from 2005-2008.

She has performed standup comedy; studied improv comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York, Prairie Theatre Exchange in Winnipeg, and the Bad Dog Theatre and Impatient Theatre Co. in Toronto; and has studied comedy writing at Second City Toronto and the People’s Improv Theatre in New York.

Sharilyn currently works in communications in Toronto.

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