A Little About Sharon

Sharon Sharth (aka Sharon Schlarth, nee Schlaerth) is a lifetime member of The Actors Studio and longtime member of the renowned Circle Repertory Theatre Company in New York City. A notable talent in film, television, and theatre, Sharon has worked in the entertainment industry for almost 40 years. She can be seen in the Sundance Film Festival Winner, The Accidental Getaway Driver, as the villain in Vertical Entertainment’s In the Forest, Baggage Check with Mira Sorvino, Eat and Run with Ron Silver, and Doorman with Bradley Whitford.

Arlene Hutton’s plays, See Rock City and Gulf View Drive, were filmed for DigitalTheatre.com – the first American plays to be added to this London-based streaming service. Ray Bradbury made sure Sharon was cast in the BBC’s production of his short stories after they worked together on Fahrenheit 451 in Los Angeles. On television and on stage, Sharon has worked with George Clooney, Louis Gossett, Jr., Stephen Lang, Will Patton, Mark Proksch, Margaret Cho, Gregory Harrison, Nick Kroll, Judd Hirsch, and the great George Carlin.

In NYC, Sharon developed new plays with Aaron Sorkin, Lanford Wilson, Shirley Lauro, Caroline Kava, John Pielmeier... On and Off-Broadway, Sharon originated fourteen lead roles and performed at Circle Rep, Manhattan Theatre Club, Broadway’s Cort Theatre, Promenade Theatre on Broadway, Geffen Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Old Globe Theatre, Rubicon Theatre, Coachella Valley Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival, Yale Rep, the Eugene O’Neill Playwright’s Conference, and she toured internationally, most notably in Japan in Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love after she played the role in NYC.

Sharon shortened her last name to Sharth and took a break from acting to become an Award-Winning Author of sixteen children’s books with various publishers. Why the break? While working at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego on Mark Harelik’s musical about Hank Williams and his wife, Audrey, Lost Highway, an accidental punch dislocated her jaw on stage. She finished the performance, finished the run, and was instructed by MDs from New York to California, to leave the business.

She is working on a memoir, To Love What Death Can Touch, about Post Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS) – a common yet rarely recognized type of psychosis.

She’s also adapting her play, Truly, Truly into a screenplay.