Sharon is an actor and singer and has worked extensively in theatre, radio, audio and concert in the West End, touring and abroad. She is also an award-winning writer (see Writing page for more details) and has directed several times for Streetwise Opera. As a producer, her portfolio includes two major charity galas, a one-day festival in Hitchin, Herts and a new commission for Tete a Tete Opera.
Her diverse theatre roles include Dorothy in A Bunch of Amateurs, Kath in 'Entertaining Mr Sloane' (covered and played), Sarah in 'Company', Sarah-Jane Moore in 'Assassins' and Beatrice in 'A View from the Bridge' at Clwyd Theatr Cymru ("outstanding","a perfect performance"), which won an award for Best Touring Production.
She is equally at home in new, small-scale productions, audio work and cabaret and has appeared in many concerts as soloist, including three Proms with the John Wilson Orchestra, and with Danny Elfman in excerpts from A Nightmare Before Christmas. She has also created several roles in theatre and for recording, including the Empress Agrippina, Patty Clare (wife of poet John Clare) and co-created and performed in a contemporary opera about Christina Rossetti which was part of the Tete a Tete Festival.
Other theatre includes:
Puck's Shadow (Watford Palace Theatre), Witchfinder (DanceEast), EBB & Place (Ledbury Poetry Festival)
Rapunzel (Gordon Craig Theatre), Storm's Eye: A Theatrical Songbook (King's Place), Richard the First (South Hill Park Arts), Outfoxed! (Royal Festival Hall), Lend Me a Tenor (Gielgud),Photo-Me (Riverside Studios), Critical Mass (Almeida Theatre), Company (Hackney Empire), Assassins (New End), Sound of Music (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Measure for Measure (Cambridge Arts), Elmer Gantry (Gate), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Peacock Theatre)
Audio work includes:
Witch/Cook/Female journo/Flight Attendant/PA in The Sandman Act V (dir. Dirk Maggs, Audible)
Narrator of Mixed by Tamar Hodes (Audiobook, W F Howes)
One of five narrators of Mischief Acts by Zoe Gilbert (Audiobook, Bloomsbury)
Radio/concert solo work includes:
Danny Elfman’s music for the films of Tim Burton (Royal Albert Hall); Sondheim: Inside Out (South Bank/BBC Concert Orchestra) The Good Companions (BBC Radio 3), Friday Night is Music Night (BBC Radio 2), Songs from the Shows (BBC Radio 2), Sweeney Todd (Royal Festival Hall), A Bernstein Celebration (Barbican), Pal Joey/On Your Toes (Brighton Dome, Hidden Verses (Clwyd Theatr Cymru) and three solo appearances at the BBC Proms (Royal Albert Hall) - Rodgers & Hammerstein and the Warner Brothers Story (with the John Wilson Orchestra) and Oklahoma!
Her diverse theatre roles include Dorothy in A Bunch of Amateurs, Kath in 'Entertaining Mr Sloane' (covered and played), Sarah in 'Company', Sarah-Jane Moore in 'Assassins' and Beatrice in 'A View from the Bridge' at Clwyd Theatr Cymru ("outstanding","a perfect performance"), which won an award for Best Touring Production.
She is equally at home in new, small-scale productions, audio work and cabaret and has appeared in many concerts as soloist, including three Proms with the John Wilson Orchestra, and with Danny Elfman in excerpts from A Nightmare Before Christmas. She has also created several roles in theatre and for recording, including the Empress Agrippina, Patty Clare (wife of poet John Clare) and co-created and performed in a contemporary opera about Christina Rossetti which was part of the Tete a Tete Festival.
Other theatre includes:
Puck's Shadow (Watford Palace Theatre), Witchfinder (DanceEast), EBB & Place (Ledbury Poetry Festival)
Rapunzel (Gordon Craig Theatre), Storm's Eye: A Theatrical Songbook (King's Place), Richard the First (South Hill Park Arts), Outfoxed! (Royal Festival Hall), Lend Me a Tenor (Gielgud),Photo-Me (Riverside Studios), Critical Mass (Almeida Theatre), Company (Hackney Empire), Assassins (New End), Sound of Music (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Measure for Measure (Cambridge Arts), Elmer Gantry (Gate), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Peacock Theatre)
Audio work includes:
Witch/Cook/Female journo/Flight Attendant/PA in The Sandman Act V (dir. Dirk Maggs, Audible)
Narrator of Mixed by Tamar Hodes (Audiobook, W F Howes)
One of five narrators of Mischief Acts by Zoe Gilbert (Audiobook, Bloomsbury)
Radio/concert solo work includes:
Danny Elfman’s music for the films of Tim Burton (Royal Albert Hall); Sondheim: Inside Out (South Bank/BBC Concert Orchestra) The Good Companions (BBC Radio 3), Friday Night is Music Night (BBC Radio 2), Songs from the Shows (BBC Radio 2), Sweeney Todd (Royal Festival Hall), A Bernstein Celebration (Barbican), Pal Joey/On Your Toes (Brighton Dome, Hidden Verses (Clwyd Theatr Cymru) and three solo appearances at the BBC Proms (Royal Albert Hall) - Rodgers & Hammerstein and the Warner Brothers Story (with the John Wilson Orchestra) and Oklahoma!
