JASMINE SHARMA (she/her) is a South Asian-American performer/writer/activist. She aims to focus her work at the intersection of race/femininity/Americanness. The world premiere of her play RADIAL GRADIENT at Shattered Globe Theatre was nominated for The Kilroys Web. Her play PEACHY: a sorta chekhovian traumedy, is an O’Neill NPC finalist, and will be taught and produced at Yale University, directed by Shilarna Stokes, spring 2025. She is currently a Playwrights' Center Core Writer 2024-2027.
Other plays have been commissioned/supported/seen at Center Theater Group, Goodman Theatre, IAMA Theatre Company, Ashland New Plays Festival, Jackalope Theatre Company, The Brick, The Road Theatre, Moxie Arts NYC, The Fled Collective, Valdez Last Frontier Theatre Conference, among others. As a...
JASMINE SHARMA (she/her) is a South Asian-American performer/writer/activist. She aims to focus her work at the intersection of race/femininity/Americanness. The world premiere of her play RADIAL GRADIENT at Shattered Globe Theatre was nominated for The Kilroys Web. Her play PEACHY: a sorta chekhovian traumedy, is an O’Neill NPC finalist, and will be taught and produced at Yale University, directed by Shilarna Stokes, spring 2025. She is currently a Playwrights' Center Core Writer 2024-2027.
Other plays have been commissioned/supported/seen at Center Theater Group, Goodman Theatre, IAMA Theatre Company, Ashland New Plays Festival, Jackalope Theatre Company, The Brick, The Road Theatre, Moxie Arts NYC, The Fled Collective, Valdez Last Frontier Theatre Conference, among others. As a screenwriter, her short film “CCC: Conflicted Cuties of Color” premieres spring 2024, and she is a 2022-2023 Reel Sisters Fellow. Jasmine has also written essays for @i_weigh, spoken at Yale, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Harvard Club of NY, and led workshops for Boston Conservatory and Echo Writes.
As an actor, recent credits include AMERICAN GIRL DOLL HORROR PLAY: Or, Kavi Sharma Stole My Identity (The Brick), you don’t have to do anything (HERE Arts, u/s perf.), the west coast premieres of WIVES and CALVIN BERGER: A Musical, THE WOLVES (McCarter Theater), and a lot of new work development (New Harmony Project, OPC, DCPA Colorado New Play Summit, Center Theater Group, ASCAP, NYTW, The Public, The New Group, Ma-Yi, Musical Theatre West, etc). Northwestern University. jasminesharma.org | @jasminesharmaa