Shara Feit

Shara Feit is a New York-based dramatic writer, performer, and dramaturg who makes sad/funny work about messy, wild, virtuosic, heretical, believing, queer women and gender nonconforming folx and the clash of old cultures with contemporary cultural realities.

Shara's plays have been developed by Northwestern University's Department of Theatre, G45 Productions, Williamstown Theatre Festival’s Professional Training Program, The 24 Hour Plays, Rule of 7x7 at The Tank, Wyrd Sisters Productions, The Sewanee Writers' Conference (2019 Romulus Linney Scholar), Barn Arts, The Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival (two-time Top 30 Playwright, 2020 Winner), Pipeline Theatre Company, and Geva Theatre Center.

Shara's play little lives was a 2019 finalist for National Playwrights...

Shara Feit is a New York-based dramatic writer, performer, and dramaturg who makes sad/funny work about messy, wild, virtuosic, heretical, believing, queer women and gender nonconforming folx and the clash of old cultures with contemporary cultural realities.

Shara's plays have been developed by Northwestern University's Department of Theatre, G45 Productions, Williamstown Theatre Festival’s Professional Training Program, The 24 Hour Plays, Rule of 7x7 at The Tank, Wyrd Sisters Productions, The Sewanee Writers' Conference (2019 Romulus Linney Scholar), Barn Arts, The Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival (two-time Top 30 Playwright, 2020 Winner), Pipeline Theatre Company, and Geva Theatre Center.

Shara's play little lives was a 2019 finalist for National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center and her play Ties received the 2017 Northwestern University Agnes Nixon Award. Shara was a 2020 BRIO Award Recipient from the Bronx Council on the Arts. BA: Northwestern University.

Scripts

little lives

by Shara Feit

Synopsis

Women’s Choice and Women’s Care are next door neighbors that couldn’t be more different. Women’s Choice is poor, Women’s Care is well-funded. Women's Choice is under assault, Women's Care has chocolate chip cookies. Women’s Choice is an abortion clinic. Women’s Care is the crisis pregnancy center dedicated to taking it down. little lives is a pro-choice play about shared humanity across ideological lines...

Women’s Choice and Women’s Care are next door neighbors that couldn’t be more different. Women’s Choice is poor, Women’s Care is well-funded. Women's Choice is under assault, Women's Care has chocolate chip cookies. Women’s Choice is an abortion clinic. Women’s Care is the crisis pregnancy center dedicated to taking it down. little lives is a pro-choice play about shared humanity across ideological lines, queerness and religion, the casualties of the abortion wars, and the true cost of fighting for dear life.

BAD THINGS

by Shara Feit

Synopsis

BAD THINGS is a play about femme friendship/love and how two people in a complicated relationship need deeply, care virtuosically, and tumble-crash into each other over the course of their lives.

It is:
A universe for two
Queer
MessMessyMessy
Kind of punk rock
Bloody
Physical
Dreamy
Sorta like a game
100 years long
Gross
Vulnerable
Funny (I hope)
Increasingly fast
Embodied
Full of loss
Maybe a tragedy
Maybe...

BAD THINGS is a play about femme friendship/love and how two people in a complicated relationship need deeply, care virtuosically, and tumble-crash into each other over the course of their lives.

It is:
A universe for two
Queer
MessMessyMessy
Kind of punk rock
Bloody
Physical
Dreamy
Sorta like a game
100 years long
Gross
Vulnerable
Funny (I hope)
Increasingly fast
Embodied
Full of loss
Maybe a tragedy
Maybe a love story

High School Dybbuk

by Shara Feit

Synopsis

As the Yeshiva Day School for Girls’ Drama Society prepares for their upcoming production of S. Ansky’s The Dybbuk, stuff starts getting ... haunted. So now everyone is wondering, is Leah actually possessed? Is Hana an exorcist, or just weird? High School Dybbuk is a play about Modern Orthodox day school theatre, best friendship, grief, and the bizarre joys of doing frum man drag as a teenage girl.

As the Yeshiva Day School for Girls’ Drama Society prepares for their upcoming production of S. Ansky’s The Dybbuk, stuff starts getting ... haunted. So now everyone is wondering, is Leah actually possessed? Is Hana an exorcist, or just weird? High School Dybbuk is a play about Modern Orthodox day school theatre, best friendship, grief, and the bizarre joys of doing frum man drag as a teenage girl.

Hold Me

by Shara Feit

Synopsis

A play about a cuddle party.

A play about a cuddle party.

LOVE YOURSELF!!!!

by Shara Feit

Synopsis

short. in evanston winter, tiff teaches a dance fitness class to a solitary attendee. a play about group fitness, loneliness, break-ups, and self-love.

short. in evanston winter, tiff teaches a dance fitness class to a solitary attendee. a play about group fitness, loneliness, break-ups, and self-love.

connectivity

by Shara Feit

Synopsis

short. a play about hooking on up zoom and internet intimacy when the world is a dumpster fire.

short. a play about hooking on up zoom and internet intimacy when the world is a dumpster fire.

i didn't think you'd be so unhappy

by Shara Feit

Synopsis

short. rebecca and jules are bat mitzvah party motivators. rebecca and jules are best friends. rebecca and jules are growing up and it's hard.

short. rebecca and jules are bat mitzvah party motivators. rebecca and jules are best friends. rebecca and jules are growing up and it's hard.

young women of valor

by Shara Feit

Synopsis

short. it’s time for mincha on the last shabbos of second month 2010. the gazebo is sticky with a summer’s worth of kosher gummy bears and exchanged secrets but summer camp power bffs Chani and Leah’s shabbos walks are… late!!! YOUNG WOMEN OF VALOR is a short, bittersweet comedy about girlhood, Jewish summer camp, and that strange place where things can change completely.

short. it’s time for mincha on the last shabbos of second month 2010. the gazebo is sticky with a summer’s worth of kosher gummy bears and exchanged secrets but summer camp power bffs Chani and Leah’s shabbos walks are… late!!! YOUNG WOMEN OF VALOR is a short, bittersweet comedy about girlhood, Jewish summer camp, and that strange place where things can change completely.

New Choreographic Work! Premiering 2021! At the Rising Stars School for the Arts Semi-Annual Talent Show!

by Shara Feit

Synopsis

short. audrey and lila are gonna give the dance performance of a lifetime! ughhhh can't principal tammy call their names sooner????

short. audrey and lila are gonna give the dance performance of a lifetime! ughhhh can't principal tammy call their names sooner????

The First (and Final) Meeting of the 7th Grade Girls Cult

by Shara Feit

Synopsis

Short. Starting a cult in 7th grade is, like, really tough!

Short. Starting a cult in 7th grade is, like, really tough!