Sharon most recently appeared in the world-premiere of Wild With Happy by Colman Domingo at the Public Theater for which she was nominated for a 2013 Lucille Lortel Award for Ouststanding Leading Actress. Charles Isherwood of the New York Times called her performance “sensational…a breakout…ferociously funny.”

On Broadway she appeared as “The Lady” in The Scottsboro Boys, the last unproduced musical by the legendary team of Kander & Ebb (Chicago, Cabaret) and directed by Susan Stroman (The Producers, Big Fish), a role she originated Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre.

At the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater she played Lady Anne to Denzel Washington’s Richard III, Valeria to Christopher Walken’s Coriolanus and Lady Helen in Cymbeline with Joan Cusak. She was also in the Public’s award-winning adaptation of Caucasian Chalk Circle directed by George C. Wolfe and played Condoleezza Rice in the critically acclaimed production of Stuff Happens directed by Daniel Sullivan.

Other Off-Broadway credits include The Overwhelming (Roundabout Theater); Alan Ayckbourn’s House and Garden, The Radical Mystique (Manhattan Theatre Club); String of Pearls (Primary Stages) and Before it Hits Home (Second Stage).

Regional appearances include Intimate Apparel (Guthrie Theater); Merry Wives of Windsor and King Lear (Denver Center); The Story and Ceremonies In Dark Old Men (Long Wharf Theatre); Man and Superman (Center Stage); Miss Evers’ Boys (Philadelphia Theatre Company); Twelfth Night (Arena Stage); and the original production of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson at Yale Rep directed by Lloyd Richards.

Film and television appearances include recurring roles in Royal Pains and Damages as well as roles in White Collar, The Bourne Legacy, Taking Chance, Michael Clayton, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Malcolm X, Die Hard With A Vengeance, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: CI.

Sharon is a graduate of Dartmouth College and received her MFA from the Yale School of Drama.