Sharyn Rothstein

Sharyn Rothstein grew up in the small, Banana-Republic- clad town of Avon, CT. She escaped as soon as possible and graduated from Vassar College with a degree in Sociology. And then she moved to New York City, where she – happily – remains.

In the five years since graduating college, Sharyn’s full-length and one acts plays have been workshopped and/or produced off and off-off Broadway by the Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Georges, 3Graces Theatre Company, The Vital Theatre, Soho Think Tank, Manhattan Theatre Source, Makor/92nd Street Y, as part of the New York International Fringe Festival and at numerous theatres around New York by talented young production companies. Her newest full length play, a Good Farmer, premiered at the Bank Street Theatre in New York in October of 2007, and was produced by the 2007 Lucille Lortel Award winning 3Graces Theatre Company. Her critically acclaimed play Neglect was produced by the Journeymen Theatre Ensemble in Washington, D.C. this past spring, following its New York premiere at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in March of 2007.

Sharyn is a member of Youngblood, Ensemble Studio Theatre’s collective for emerging playwrights under the age of thirty. She is the winner of the Samuel French Short Play Contest (Samuel French recently published her winning one-act RelationTrip), and three of her short plays have been published in Smith & Kraus’ 2005 and 2006 editions of The Best Ten Minute Plays for 3 or More Actors. Her short play The Pickle Lady, produced this year as part of the Metropolitan Playhouse’s East Village Chronicles festival, will be published in the 2009 edition of Smith & Kraus’ The Best Ten Minute Plays for 2 Actors. Sharyn is also the recipient of the 3Graces Theatre Company’s 2007 Amazing Grace Award, for her commitment to sharing women’s stories through theater.

In addition to playwriting, Sharyn writes live event scripts for major non-profit organizations in the New York Metropolitan area, and has written speeches for numerous New York notables and celebrities. She is also the writer of Giddio, Inc.’s award-winning Billy Brown audio-adventure series for children ages 3-9.

Sharyn recently completed her MFA in dramatic writing at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she was the recipient of the Television Department’s Award for Excellence. She is currently being commissioned by 3 Graces Theatre Company to write a musical adaptation of the Biblical story of Esther, and is the recipient of a 2008 Ensemble Studio Theater/Sloan commission.

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Triage

Remind Me Again

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