Sheryl Lyna Stamps Leach is an American author who cocreated the children's show Barney & Friends with Kathy Parker and Dennis DeShazer.
[4] In the late 1980s, Sheryl Leach, along with Kathy Parker and Dennis DeShazer, came up with the concept for a children’s television show featuring a purple dinosaur named Barney.
[7] In October of that year, production began on the new TV show, titled Barney & Friends, and in April 1992, it premiered on PBS.
[13] In 2007, Leach and Rosenfeld designed and built The Smithy, a specialty retail outlet in the village of New Preston in Litchfield County Connecticut, that sells local artisanal foods and handicrafts.
[14] Leach and Rosenfeld are also involved with community development, land conservation projects, and farming organizations in Litchfield County.