Dixie Sheridan, a New York City-based freelance photographer, specializes in the documentation of the performing arts, with a specialty in theater productions; her photographs have been published regularly in national and international newspapers and magazines. The New York Public Library recently acquired Sheridan's photo archive of Off- and Off-Off-Broadway theater productions for its Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts, where it will eventually be made available to the public. Read more in News/Press.
Sheridan started her career as a newspaper reporter, editor, and photographer at the Southern Dutchess News. While at SDN, she was elected as the first woman to be president of the Mid-Hudson News Association, and she won several Heritage Media Awards for excellence in reporting, and feature writing. She then returned to her alma mater as editor, writer, and photographer for theVassar Quarterly; and continued at Vassar College for many years, becoming assistant to the president, and finally vice president for college relations. During Sheridan's time as vice president, her office won over 20 awards from CASE for excellence in publications and strategic special events planning. She has had nine one-person exhibitions of her photographs.
Sheridan earned a bachelor's degree in drama from Vassar College, and a master's degree in drama from the University of Oklahoma.
