JASMINE SHARMA

is a performer/writer/activist focusing her work at the intersection of race/femininity/Americanness.

Jasmine is currently a Core Member of The Kilroys, a Playwrights' Center Core Writer, and a resident with Colt Coeur. Her play PIGEONHOLE is a 2026 finalist for the 48th Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She is included on “Women to Watch on Broadway: 2026” by Broadway Women’s Fund.

Previous acting credits include TWELFTH NIGHT (The Public Theater), LOVE YOU MORE (Tank Core Production), you don’t have to do anything (HERE Arts, u/s perf.), WIVES (Aurora Theatre) CALVIN BERGER: A Musical (Colony Theatre), THE WOLVES (McCarter Theater), and a lot of new work development (Ojai Playwrights Conference, New Harmony Project, DCPA Colorado New Play Summit, NYTW, Prospect Musicals, ASCAP x Musical Theatre West, Hypokrit, CTG, Ma-Yi, NAATCO, etc). FILM: REIMAGINED (dir. Mateo Messina).

As a writer, full lengths include PIGEONHOLE (in development, Center Theatre Group commission) PEACHY: a sorta chekhovian traumedy (developed with IAMA Theatre Company, taught/produced at Yale University, NPC Finalist), THE JAZMINES: a rage play - and for legal reasons, a parody (developed with PWC, NPC Finalist), RADIAL GRADIENT (World Premiere at Shattered Globe Theatre, Kilroys Web 2023), among others. Jasmine’s writing has been seen on stages at The Goodman, The Kirk Douglas, Jackalope Theatre Company, The Brick, The Flea, and The Valdez Theatre Conference in Alaska. 

Jasmine was a 2022-2023 Reel Sisters Fellow, and wrote “CCC: Conflicted Cuties of Color”. She has written essays for @i_weigh (now known as @moveforyourmind), spoken at Yale, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Harvard Club of NY, and led workshops for Boston Conservatory, Echo Writes and PWC. Northwestern University. @jasminesharmaa