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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