Sherry Glaser (born June 7, 1960) is an American actress, noted for her performance in the off-Broadway solo show Family Secrets about a Jewish family in California. Glaser is also a political activist, who was arrested for her topless protest against the “immoral injustices of war” (Breasts Not Bombs), and for opening a Medical Marijuana Dispensary. In both cases, charges were dropped. Early life Sherry Glaser was born in New York and raised on Long Island. Glaser moved to San Diego in 1978 and attended San Diego State University. She developed her improvisational comedy skills with the feminist comedy group Hot Flashes. She then moved on to solo performance work, aided by the direction and co-writing of her then-husband Greg Howells. Glaser's inspiration for solo performance came while practicing improvisation in the early 1980s in San Diego in the company of Whoopi Goldberg, Mo Gaffney and Kathy Najimy. Career Glaser is best known for her long-running off-Broadway solo performance piece Family Secrets and her autobiography, Family Secrets: One Woman's Look at a Relatively Painful Subject, published by Simon & Schuster in 1997. In the play, Glaser portrays five different members of a Jewish family who migrated from New York to California in the 1980s. Glaser won numerous awards for her role in Family Secrets. The show was presented off-Broadway twice, from 1993 to 1995 and again in 2006. Glaser then played Ma and Miguel in her one-woman play, Oh My Goddess! Ma was depicted as the Great Jewish Mother of us all, "reminding us of the simple and sacred nature of life on earth". In 2004, Glaser collaborated with Thais Mazur on a theater/dance project called Remember This (An Intimate Portrait of War through the Eyes of Women) which debuted in Mendocino and then went on to San Francisco. Glaser wrote another one-woman show called Taking the High Road (Comic Confessions from Behind the Cannabis Curtain) in 2015 after her Medical Marijuana Dispensary and her home were raided by local and Federal agents. Glaser also co-authored a book with her mother, Rochelle (Shelly) Glaser about their experiences with mental illness, titled The First Practical Handbook for Crazy People. Glaser also writes a weekly Tuesday evening editorial on Mendocino County, California, radio station KZYX. Glaser's writing has been featured in the anthologies, Exit Laughing, The Other Woman, He Said What? (Victoria Zackheim, editor), and Warrior Mothers (Thais Mazur, editor). Family life