Celebrating over 30 years as a working actress and her new journey as a writer, Sharon was nominated for a 2023 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical as co-writer of New York, New York. She made her debut as playwright at City Theatre with the world-premiere of her solo play Feeding The Dragon which subsequently played at Hartford Stage and made its Off-Broadway debut at Primary Stages where she was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Lucille Lortel Award and won an Audelco Award. Sharon was the Primary Stages 2017-18 Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence. 

Feeding the Dragon is available as a best-selling Audible Original audio play and has been selected as an Audible Essentials Top 100 pick.

Sharon is currently working on a picture book adaptation of her story: The Little Girl Who Lived in the Library for Scholastic.

Her creative journey is chronicled in the award-winning documentary film When My Sleeping Dragon Woke directed by Chuck Schultz and Judah Lev-Dickstein.

Sharon is proud to have been selected as a 2024 MacDowell Fellow and was also awarded a 2024 Princeton University Library Research Grant for her new play A Colored Mirror.

Sharon continues to perform on stage where she was seen as Queen Margaret in the Public Theater/Shakespeare in the Park production of Richard III starring Dania Gurira, which was broadcast on PBS Great Performances.

On Broadway Sharon appeared in The Scottsboro Boys musical. Off-Broadway credits include Dot (Vineyard Theater); Wild with Happy (Public Theater/NYSF) for which she received a Lucille Lortel nomination and an Audelco Award; Richard III (2022 and 1990), Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Caucasian Chalk Circle (Public Theatre/NYSF) and While I Yet Live and String of Pearls (Primary Stages) among many others. 

She has performed at award-winning regional theaters around the country including: City Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Guthrie Theater, Denver Center, Yale Rep and Arena Stage and workshopped numerous new plays at The O’Neill, Sundance, Powerhouse at Vassar and New York Theater Workshop.

As a sought after voiceover artist you may also recognize her voice as the narrator of several documentary series for Discovery, NOVA and PBS.

Sharon holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama and a BA from Dartmouth College. She currently sits on the boards of The Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth, Girl Be Heard and the Theatre Gap Initiative.