She originated the role of The Lady in The Scottsboro Boys, the last unproduced musical by the legendary team of Kander & Ebb (Chicago, Cabaret, and Kiss of the Spiderwoman) Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre and regionally at the Guthrie Theater before debuting on Broadway in its world-premiere at the Lyceum Theatre.

At the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater she has played Lady Anne to Denzel Washington’s Richard III, Valeria to Christopher Walken’s Coriolanus and Lady Helen in Cymbeline with Joan Cusack. She was also in the Public’s award- winning adaptation of Caucasian Chalk Circle directed by George C. Wolfe, as well as the critically acclaimed production of Stuff Happens directed by Daniel Sullivan. She was nominated for an Audelco Award for her performance in Fear Itself directed by Joe Morton.

Regionally she has appeared in The Merry Wives of Windsor and King Lear (Denver Center), Intimate Apparel (Guthrie Theater), String of Pearls (City Theatre), Jar The Floor (Seattle Rep), Diggin’ Eleven (Hartford Stage), The Story, and Ceremonies In Dark Old Men (Long Wharf Theatre), Man and Superman (Center Stage), Miss Evers’ Boys (Philadelphia Theatre Company), Twelfth Night (Arena Stage) and The Piano Lesson (Yale Rep) directed by Lloyd Richards. She has also spent several wonderful summers working on new plays at the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference and the Sundance Theater Lab.

Film and television appearances include: Damages, Royal Pains, Taking Chance, Michael Clayton, The School of Rock, Rocksteady, Two Mothers, Half Nelson, The Long Kiss Goodnight, The Confession, Malcolm X, Die Hard With A Vengeance, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU. Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Cosby, Guiding Light and One Life to Live.

Sharon has appeared in numerous television and radio commercials, both on-camera and voice-over, and is an accomplished audiobook narrator.

A New York City native, she is a graduate of The Yale School of Drama (MFA); Dartmouth College (where she received the Marcus Heiman Award “in recognition for her contribution to the creative arts at Dartmouth”); and The Dalton School.

Sharon has been privileged to work with some of the most prestigious national and international theater artists including: John Kander and Susan Stroman in The Scottsboro Boys; Max Stafford Clark in The Overwhelming; John Tillinger in Alan Ayckbourn’s House and Garden and with Arthur Laurents in The Radical Mystique which he wrote and directed.

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