A Doris Duke Performing Artist, Sharon Bridgforth is a writer that creates ritual/jazz theatre. A 2020-2023 Playwrights’ Center Core Member, Sharon has received support from Creative Capital, MAP Fund, the National Performance Network and is a New Dramatists alumnae. Sharon served as a dramaturg for the Urban Bush Women Choreographic Center Initiative’s Choreographic Fellowship program and has been in residence with: Brown University’s MFA Playwriting Program; University of Iowa’s MFA Playwrights Program; The Theatre School at DePaul University; allgo, A Texas Statewide QPOC Organization; and The Department of Performance Studies at Northwestern University. Widely published, Sharon author of the Lambda Literary award winning, “the bull-jean stories”, and her performance piece, “delta dandi”, is published in “solo/black/woman: scripts, interviews and essays”.

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Likes to talk to artists about: Coffee, Black Mermaids that fly, The Great African-American Migrations, Ancestral Healing, my Mentors, Theatrical Jazz, the Work of Love.