AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, PUBLICATIONS |
| Vintage Books • 2006 |
Sharon's play, "Mistaken Identity," is in the anthology Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays ( Vintage Books: Lane/Shengold, Editors). This anthology is available at the Drama Book Shop in New York City or at any Barnes and Nobles. It is also available at Amazon.com (see sidebar to order). You can read more about "Mistaken Identity" below.
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| FirstStage L.A. • 2005 |
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Sharon's one-act play, In The MeanTime, which she wrote and developed as part of Milk Can's ten-minute play festival, The Receipt Plays, was selected as a semi-finalist in FirstStage L.A.'s ninth annual one-act contest.
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| The Kennedy Center • 2002-2004 |
Selected to attend the Kennedy Center's Playwrighting Intensive. |
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| Spotlight On Awards • 2002-2003 |
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Finding Center Three, Several Nominations
In the Midst, Winner Best Play (Short Form) for the Season |
| Southern Theatre Magazine • Fall 2001 |
New Voices Alumni in Southern Theatre Magazine |
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| Jewish Ensemble Theatre • 1999 |
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Jewish Ensemble Theatre: Finalist for Lifeline |
| Mill Mountain Theatre • 1998 |
Mill Mountain Theatre: Semi-Finalist for Lifeline |
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| TheatreVirginia • 1993 |
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Selected, in high school, to attend a Summer Residency with TheatreVirginia's New Voices for the Theatre Program
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PLAYS |
| DOOR OF HOPE (full-length) |
Follow the interwoven lives of a family from Hable (Palestinian) and Matan (Israeli) when a tragedy shifts these two families; Inspired by a true story.
Production History:
• Staged Reading, October 2003, Makor -- Part of the 92nd Street Y
• Reading, May 2002, Looking Glass Theatre's "Women at Work"
Currently being offered as a world-premiere. |
I see Salim. I see him everywhere I look. Last week at the market, I almost tapped a young man on the shoulder, but Salim is not a young man anymore. It's like I have him frozen in my mind. Frozen behind my eyelids, where no one else can see.
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| WAITING ON THE LOVE BOAT (monologue, drama) |
So, Mommy gets home, then Daddy gets home, and then Mommy calls Daddy a mother fucker. Can I have a TV? Can I--please? Now? Now God? Now--Now? . . .
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A recently deceased child asks God for a television.
Production History:
• Full Production, April 2003, Idaho Repertory/Idaho University's DNA Festival
Written at the Kennedy Center's Playwrighting Program, Summer 2002 |
| FINDING CENTER THREE (three short plays, drama) |
Three pieces about finding your center in the midst of change.
Production History:
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Equity Showcase Production, October 2002, Raw Space Theatre, Spotlight On: "Halloween Festival" |
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| A YEAR IN NEW YORK (full-length comedy) |
You know this little knawing thing that happens in your stomach when you're dumped, and you realize you don't have anyone to lie down with in Central Park or rent a movie from Blockbuster, or share Italian dishes with, and you have to shove it out of your mind, because the thought is so unbearable; you know you're going to spend the next weekend in bed with a pint of cookies and cream, and it will be so quiet. The quiet would be like, yeah, that would be awful if I felt that way. Now that I think about it, it's really great. It's better this way. It really gives me a chance to work on--whatever it is single people work on. . . . |
One southern girl takes on the big city
Production History:
• Workshop/Staged Reading, August 2001, Looking Glass Theatre's "Hotter than Hades"
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| LIFELINE (full-length comic drama) |
One family's struggle to come together in the face of a tragedy
Production History:
• Off-Off Broadway Production, March 2001, The American Theatre of Actors
• Alumni Reading, July 1999, Theatre Virginia's New Voices for the Theatre
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| FOR CAMILLE (full-length comic drama) |
JEROME: So, this is how the rich white folks live? Quite a pad you've got here, Camille. I've haven't been on this side of town, well, ever. Do they let black folks in this neighborhood? KEVIN: Apparently, Jerome, since we just left my house--one street over.
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A young actress struggles in an interracial relationship.
Production History:
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Staged Reading, October 1999, Henrico High School's Center for the Arts
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Staged Reading, July 1993, Theatre Virginia's New Voices for the Theatre |
| PAINTING IT MATISSE (ten-minute play) |
A woman explores her past and present in her self portrait.
Production History:
• Produced as part of The Matisse Plays by The Milk Can Theatre Company, January 2005 |
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| IN THE MEANTIME (ten-minute play) |
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The nature of time and love is explored in this "in the meantime" relationship
Production History:
• Produced as part of The Receipt Plays by The Milk Can Theatre Company, May 2004.
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| MISTAKEN IDENTITY |
A blind date gives two very different people a chance to notice their assumptions.
July 2004 |
STEVE: So, I know that you all do the "arranged marriage thing." I've read up on it. Of course, Rashid and I wanted you to approve, too, Kali.
KALI: How twenty-first century of you and my brother. Steve--
KALI / STEVE: I'm gay. / Will you marry me? |
| IN THE MIDST (one-act play) |
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Two strangers meet in Central Park on October 13, 2001
December 2001 |
| DIRECTLY AFTER |
A piece about envy and perception, between a son and a student.
December 2001 |
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| NEW WITNESS IN WONDERLAND |
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A surreal journey, taking place in 1953 and 1983.
May 2001 |
