Inducted in the Texas Institute of Letters in 2025, Sharon Bridgforth is an Associate Company Member at Pillsbury House + Theatre, a Doris Duke Performing Artist, recipient of Yale’s Windham Campbell Prize in Drama, the Playwrights’ Center Core Membership, McKnight National Fellowship and the USA Artist Fellowship. She has received support from Creative Capital, MAP Fund and the National Performance Network. A New Dramatists Alum and recent MAP Fund Scaffolding for Practicing Artists Coach, Sharon’s dat Black Mermaid Man Lady/The Show is streaming on the Twin Cities PBS platform.
Sharon’s new book, before you go: an Offering was published by Tripwire Harlot Press in 2025. 53rd State Press published bull-jean & dem/dey back in 2022. Sharon’s 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; Feminist Studies Vol 48 Number 1, honoring 40 years of This Bridge Called by Back and But Some of Us Are Brave!; We Are Each Other’s Liberation-Black & Asian Feminist Solidarities; and Playwriting with Purpose. More at sharonbridgforth.com
