Sharon Cooper's five full-length plays and dozens of short plays have been produced in Germany, India, Hungary, England, Singapore, and across the U.S. Her plays are published in The Best 10-Minute Plays of 2010, 2014 and 2016; Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays; and several college textbooks including The Bedford Introduction to Literature and Literature to Go. Sharon has won several awards for her writing, including “Outstanding Short Play” in the Planet Connections Festival and she was a finalist in the Short and Sweet Festival in Sydney, Australia, for her play Painting 17. She was produced three times at The Keller Theatre in Giessen, Germany, including a commission of A Visit to the Bronx. Sharon studied at the Kennedy Center’s Playwriting Intensive Summer Program and New York University, where she focused on filmmaking and screenwriting and arts/public policy. She is a writer on the new web series BKPI (Creator/Director: Hye Yun Park, produced by Super Deluxe). The original story for Sharon’s short film The Seven Men of Hanukkah (director: Daryl Lathon) was developed at CRY HAVOC and features Resident Artist Jenny Kirlin and Mike Houston, who plays “Officer Dixon” on Orange is the New Black. “The Seven Men of Hanukkah” has screened nationally in many festivals and was a winner of the Boston Jewish Film Festival. Sharon is a writing coach, English tutor and yoga instructor, a member of The Dramatists Guild, and a proud Resident Playwright of The CRY HAVOC Company (www.cryhavoccompany.org) and the Stillwater Writer’s Group. www.sharonecooper.com
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