From the Marrow

A 2023 United States Artists Fellow, 2022 Winner of Yale's Windham Campbell Prize in Drama, Sharon Bridgforth is 2020-2023 Playwrights’ Center Core Member, a 2022-2024 McKnight National Fellow and a New Dramatists alumnae. A Doris Duke Performing Artist she has received support from Creative Capital, MAP Fund and the National Performance Network. Her work is featured in: Volume 110, No. 4, Winter 2022 of The Yale Review; Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature; Mouths of Rain an Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought; and Feminist Studies Volume 48, Number 1, honoring 40 years of This Bridge Called My Back and But Some of Us Are Brave! Sharon's bull-jean & dem/dey back and All These Things: A Conversation by Sharon Bridgforth & Daniel Alexander Jones are published by 53rd State Press. AdeRisa Productions produced the 2023 bull-jean & dem/dey back L.A. Book Party Documentary directed by Adelina Anthony. Sharon is an Associate Company Member at Pillsbury House + Theatre (PHT) in Minneapolis, MN. PHT produced mainstage productions of Sharon’s work in 2022 & 2023.