Sharyn Rothstein

Sharyn Rothstein is an award-winning playwright and television writer. Her newest play Best for Baby, about the Johnson & Johnson baby powder scandal, premiered this summer at the Chautauqua Institution. Her play Bad Books is a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere play and winner of the David Goldman Prize for New American Plays. Bad Books was first produced by Florida Studio Theatre (Sarasota, FL), Round House Theatre (Bethesda, MD), Williamston Theatre (Williamston, MI), and Curious Theatre Company (Denver, CO) and will be produced at other theaters across America this year.

Sharyn’s Helen Hayes Award-nominated musical adaptation of the beloved film Hester Street (with music and lyrics by Joel Waggoner) was produced at Washington DC's Theater J. Her play By The Water was first produced by Manhattan Theater Club and Ars Nova and was the recipient of the American Theater Critic’s Association Francesca Primus Prize. Her plays have also been produced at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Arena Stage, McCarter Theatre Center, Ensemble Studio Theater, as well as Raven Theater and Northlight Theater in Chicago. Her audio drama Deep Fake is available on Audible.

She has been a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Youngblood, Ars Nova’s Playgroup, the WP Theatre Lab and the New American Writer’s Group at Primary Stages. She is a Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellow, and a four-time winner of the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. She has received new play commissions from The Chautauqua Institution, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Manhattan Theater Club and Ensemble Studio Theatre, among others. Her plays have been published by DPS, Samuel French, Playscripts and others.

Sharyn is a proud member of the Writers Guild of America East Council. She is currently a writer and Co-Executive Producer on CBS’s new show EINSTEIN. She has also written for SUITS LA, the spin-off of the hit legal drama SUITS, for which she wrote and produced for five seasons. Sharyn was a writer and Co-Executive Producer on AMC's ORPHAN BLACK: ECHOES, and has developed shows for HBO, Apple, AMC and Bravo.

Sharyn holds an MFA in dramatic writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and a Masters in Public Health from Hunter College. She teaches television writing at NYU and Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, two kids, two cats and a mountain of laundry.

Education

Vassar College, BA; Hunter College, MPH; NYU, MFA