Jasmine Sharma, a playwright and performer who was recently a finalist for the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, has signed with WME for representation. She will be repped by Lizzy Weingold in the theater department.
The New York-based Sharma, who aims to focus her work at the intersection of race, femininity and Americanness, is currently a member of The Kilroys collective, a core writer at the Playwrights’ Center and recently accepted a residency at Brooklyn’s Colt Coeur theater company. Her play, “Pigeonhole,” was a finalist for this year’s Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the oldest and largest English playwriting honor for women.
On the acting front, last summer Sharma was part of the ensemble and the understudy for Olivia (Sandra Oh) in the Public Theater’s production of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” the first at the new Delacorte Theater. She also led the play “Love You More” off-Broadway and filmed a supporting role in the upcoming film “Reimagined,” starring Joel McHale and Paula Patton.
Other acting credits include “You Don’t Have to Do Anything” at HERE Arts, “Wives” at Aurora Theatre,
“Calvin Berger: A Musical” at Los Angeles’ Colony Theatre and “The Wolves” at Princeton University’s McCarter Theater.
“Pigeonhole” is currently in development and was commissioned by L.A.’s Center Theatre Group. Sharma has also penned the plays “Peachy: A Sorta Chekhovian Traumedy” (developed with IAMA Theatre Company, taught/produced at Yale University and a National Playwrights Conference finalist), “The Jazmines: A Rage Play — and for Legal Reasons, a Parody” (also a NPC finalist) and “Radial Gradient,” which world premiered at Chicago’s Shattered Globe Theatre. In addition to “Pigeonhole,” Sharma is developing a play about Usha Vance, the wife of vice president JD Vance.
Sharma is repped by Abby Berger at Bohemia Group for management.
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