From the Marrow

Sharon Bridgforth (she/her/Mermaid) is a writer that creates ritual/jazz theater. A 2022 winner of Yale’s Windham Campbell Prize in Drama, Sharon is a 2020-2023 Playwrights’ Center Core Member, a 2022-2023 McKnight Fellow, and a New Dramatists alum. She has received support from the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, Creative Capital, MAP Fund and the National Performance Network. Her writing is featured in Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature; Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought, and Feminist Studies’ special issue commemorating 40 years of This Bridge Called My Back and But Some of Us Are Brave! Sharon’s dat Black Mermaid Man Lady/The Show is streaming on the Twin Cities’ PBS platform.