Jasmine Sharma

Jasmine Sharma

JASMINE SHARMA (she/her) is a South Asian-American performer/writer/activist. She aims to a focus her work at the intersection of race/femininity/Americanness. If we’re collaborating on stories that are community driven/centering non nuclear family structures/funny, that’s a sliv/slaff/sley.

Currently developing PIGEONHOLE commissioned by Center Theatre Group.

Her plays have been...
JASMINE SHARMA (she/her) is a South Asian-American performer/writer/activist. She aims to a focus her work at the intersection of race/femininity/Americanness. If we’re collaborating on stories that are community driven/centering non nuclear family structures/funny, that’s a sliv/slaff/sley.

Currently developing PIGEONHOLE commissioned by Center Theatre Group.

Her plays have been produced/developed/recognized by The O’Neill, Kennedy Center, Shattered Globe Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Jackalope Theatre Company, IAMA Theatre Company, The Entertainment Community Fund, Moxie Arts NYC, The Fled Collective, Ashland New Plays Festival, The Road Theatre, The 24 Hour Plays, AlterTheater Ensemble, Access Theater NYC, American Blues Theater, Aston Rep, Valdez Last Frontier Theatre Conference, The Blank Theatre, Mayo Performing Arts Center, The Athena Project, Lime Arts Productions, Samuel-Lancaster Productions, Avalanche Theatre Company, Mad Cow Theatre, and Permafrost Theatre Collective, among others.

As a screenwriter, her short film “Conflicted Cuties of Color” is currently in production, releasing fall 2023. For her writing on the pilot of “Gro Up”, she is a 2022-2023 Reel Sisters Fellow. Jasmine has also contributed to @iWeigh. Sometimes, she directs new work, sometimes, she Script PAs Broadway musicals.

Northwestern University. jasminesharma.org | @jasminesharmaa

Plays

  • PEACHY: a sorta chekhovian traumedy by Jasmine Sharma
    Recommendations: 5
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    Cast: 
    8–10
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy
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    Keyword: Chekhov Adaptation, restaurant + 3 more
    Genre: adaptation, comedy
    Keyword: Chekhov Adaptation, restaurant, Mexican-Indian family, Family Secrets, Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
    In 2022, the owner of a Los Angeles based, family-run, Indi-Mex restaurant has the opportunity to franchise. In 1962, a Mexican woman and Punjabi peach farmer enter a "Mexidu" marriage in order to circumvent California's stringent miscegenation laws. Jasmine Sharma's PEACHY is a sorta chekhovian traumedy about cooking with love...and, family.
  • The Jazmines: a rage play - and for legal reasons, a parody. by Jasmine Sharma
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, parody/spoof + 1 more
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    Keyword: Colorism, auditioning + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, parody/spoof, satire
    Keyword: Colorism, auditioning, musical theatre, Disney, screlt
    In this multi(hypenate)verse, South Asian-American creatives carve out space in the American Theatre canon. In the audition room, the casting office, and at the talkback, THE JAZMINES asks who is behind the table and who puts themselves in front of it. Where are you?
  • Radial Gradient by Jasmine Sharma
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama, political
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    Keyword: American race relations and racism, greek life + 3 more
    Genre: drama, political
    Keyword: American race relations and racism, greek life, Academia, intersectional feminism, Colorism
    A hate crime has taken place at a liberal University in America. Three women enter a research study planning to create positive change, but instead, uncover their complicated shared history. Jasmine Sharma's new play, Radial Gradient challenges what complicity looks like - what do we do if it looks like us?
  • For Your Consideration by Jasmine Sharma
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, parody/spoof
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    Keyword: Reality TV Parody, love + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, parody/spoof
    Keyword: Reality TV Parody, love, dating, interracial couple, family
    Newtflix is looking for their next big reality TV hit, and Surya will finally be getting her shit together in order to deliver. In the basement of a Hindu Samaj, Surya - and her Uma Auntie - audition an interracial couple for a potential new dating show, turning her recent heartbreak into a marketable pitch deck. Jasmine Sharma's new play, For Your Consideration, examines what happens when what you make is...
    Newtflix is looking for their next big reality TV hit, and Surya will finally be getting her shit together in order to deliver. In the basement of a Hindu Samaj, Surya - and her Uma Auntie - audition an interracial couple for a potential new dating show, turning her recent heartbreak into a marketable pitch deck. Jasmine Sharma's new play, For Your Consideration, examines what happens when what you make is seen by everyone - including the person who inspired it.
  • VIRGINS: A Madonna Bootcamp by Jasmine Sharma
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: dark comedy, farce
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    Keyword: actors, casting + 3 more
    Genre: dark comedy, farce
    Keyword: actors, casting, body dysmorphia, disordered eating, madonna
    Florence and Julia are the final two in consideration for the role of Madonna in the Madonna biopic. But who can kick, screlt, and most importantly, drop enough weight in time to play the icon? Virgins: A Madonna Bootcamp, is my silly little love letter to the actors still dealing with this shit.
  • Cancelled/Cancel Me by Jasmine Sharma
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
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    Keyword: social media, friendship + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    Keyword: social media, friendship, roommates, racism, pandemic, care
    It's us against them and us against us and us be in isolation. Between hours spent on Tiktok and Tumblr, college juniors demand accountability from the world and each other during the 2020 pandemic. Jasmine Sharma's new play, CANCELLED/CANCEL ME, are two acts in conversation about care.
  • Gut Punch by Jasmine Sharma
    Recommendations: 5
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, farce + 2 more
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    Keyword: racism, improv + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, farce, political, satire
    Keyword: racism, improv, American college students, Colorism, whiteness
    Is it gauche to improvise with white people when you constantly have to sweep edit their implicit bias? Jasmine Sharma’s 30 minute Harold within a Harold about a collegiate long form improvisation team is an experiment in the theatre of the oppressed.
  • Hot Dogs and Feminism by Jasmine Sharma
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, farce
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    Keyword: intersectional feminism, American suburbs
    Genre: comedy, farce
    Keyword: intersectional feminism, American suburbs
    If fitting in with fifth graders means hosting girl gang meetings in your basement to discuss new wave feminism, okay! But while figuring out how to navigate their new "friendship", Olga and her pals resort to cafeteria crime in order to catch the liberal eyes of much cooler fifth grade feminazis. In Jasmine Sharma’s 30 minute farce, Hot Dogs and Feminism, suburban liberals must confront…suburban liberals.
  • Leaving Wonderland by Jasmine Sharma
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5–8
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    Genre: adaptation
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    Keyword: sexual assault, feminism + 1 more
    Genre: adaptation
    Keyword: sexual assault, feminism, Performative Allyship
    A modern day adaptation of the 1865 novel, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice in Wonderland), Alice tries to discern the imagined from the reality of a night where memory is up and down, grown and shrunk upon recollection. Jasmine Sharma’s new play, Leaving Wonderland explores Alice's encounter with sexual assault, and the space in which she looks for control in the #metoo era.
  • PIGEONHOLE by Jasmine Sharma
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: dark comedy
    Genre: dark comedy
    Kaaya and Dev are siblings with nothing in common except their childhood home in New fkn Jersey. Over fifty years on the day of Raksha Bandhan, or, Rakhi, two siblings played by six actors try to protect each other from their past flying by them in real time. Jasmine Sharma’s PIGEONHOLE is a new play about an old Big Ask - can you build a nest where there was none?