Sharyn Rothstein is an award-winning playwright, television writer and copywriter.

Sharyn’s plays and musicals have been produced around the country, as well as internationally. Her adaptation of the beloved film Hester Street will premiere at Washington D.C.’s Theater J this Spring of 2024 (featuring musical by Joel Waggoner), followed by the premiere of her book-banning drama Bad Books at Round House Theatre in 2025.

Her play By the Water, about a Staten Island family dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, was first produced by Manhattan Theater Club and Ars Nova, and was the recipient of the American Theater Critics Association Francesca Primus Prize. Her family comedy All the Days, was produced at the McCarter Theater Center, directed by Emily Mann, and her technology drama, Right to Be Forgotten, premiered at Arena Stage, directed by Seema Sueko, and was produced in Chicago at the Raven Theater in 2023. Her audio drama, Deep Fake, was released on Audible in 2022.

Sharyn has been a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Youngblood, Ars Nova’s Playgroup, the WP Theatre Lab and the New American Writer’s Group at Primary Stages. She is a Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellow, and a four-time winner of the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. She has received new play commissions from Williamstown Theatre Festival, Manhattan Theater Club and Ensemble Studio Theatre, among others. Her plays have been published by DPS, Samuel French, Playscripts and others.

Sharyn is an accomplished television writer and producer. She is currently a writer and Co-Executive Producer on Orphan Black: Echoes, the spin-off of the sci-fi hit Orphan Black, soon to be on AMC. She was a writer/producer for the USA legal drama SUITS for many years, and has developed shows for Apple, AMC and Bravo. Sharyn holds an MFA in dramatic writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and a Master’s in Public Health from Hunter College. She teaches television writing at NYU.