“This is the kind of exciting new voice, and potential fresh audience, that Chicago theater badly needs. Sharma should not hold back.”

- Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune

RADIAL GRADIENT

A hate crime has taken place at a liberal University in America. Three women enter a research study planning to create positive change, but instead, uncover their complicated shared history. Jasmine Sharma's new play, Radial Gradient challenges what complicity looks like - what do we do if it looks like us?

PEACHY: a sorta chekhovian traumedy

In 2022, the owner of a Los Angeles based, family-run, Indi-Mex restaurant has the opportunity to franchise. In 1962, a Mexican woman and Punjabi peach farmer enter a "Mexidu" marriage in order to circumvent California's stringent miscegenation laws. Jasmine Sharma's PEACHY is a sorta chekhovian traumedy about cooking with love…and, family.

PIGEONHOLE

Kaaya and Dev are siblings with nothing in common except their childhood home in New fkn Jersey. Over fifty years on the day of Raksha Bandhan, or, Rakhi, two siblings played by six actors try to protect each other from their past flying by them in real time. Jasmine Sharma’s PIGEONHOLE is a new play about an old Big Ask - can you build a nest where there was none?

AMERICAN GIRL DOLL HORROR PLAY: Or, Kavi Sharma Stole My Identity

Doll has the chance to break into the industry if she agrees to the deal her agent and former AGD herself, Ivy Ling, has negotiated – “Kavi Sharma, The 2023 Girl Of The Year”. AMERICAN GIRL DOLL HORROR PLAY Or, Kavi Sharma Stole My Identity, is a short, spooky play about big, spooky compromises.

VIRGINS: A Madonna Bootcamp

Florence and Julia are the final two in consideration for the role of Madonna in the Madonna biopic. But who can kick, screlt, and most importantly, drop enough weight in time to play the icon? Virgins: A Madonna Bootcamp, is my silly little love letter to the actors still dealing with this shit.

SHOWTIME, AUNTIE

Rohan and Reena have both been told they have to perform a solo at yet another family wedding. It's competitive, until Rohan catches Reena smoking a joint outside. Showtime, Auntie is a short play about performing under pressure - or trying to, anyway.

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

Newtflix is looking for their next big reality TV hit, and Surya will finally be getting her shit together in order to deliver. In the basement of a Hindu Samaj, Surya - and her Uma Auntie - audition an interracial couple for a potential new dating show, turning her recent heartbreak into a marketable pitch deck. Jasmine Sharma's new play, For Your Consideration, examines what happens when what you make is seen by everyone - including the person who inspired it.

KIDS CLUB/CLUB KIDS

During “Nightcare Night” in the childcare section of an unnamed lesbian nightclub, six year olds Milo and Petunia offer no nonsense relationship therapy for adults. This four part musical episodic was written for SERIALS by The Fled Collective: A Late Night Short Play Competition! We’re all kids at the kids club.

SCRABBLE

Two old friends spend their last night together, before the flood, as planned. The board game is sentient.

“CCC: Conflicted Cuties of Color”

If you're a woman of color with a white legacy partner at ***Unidentified Ivy League School***, you may get tapped on the shoulder. This secret society exists as like, alcoholics anonymous for interracial couples. But when a transfer student from Cornell is invited to pledge, the society discovers her partner is actually not white, but MIAMI CUBAN, okay?!?!

“GRO Up” - Pilot

Fresh out of juvie, three teen girls work at an urban garden, and, try to get their shit together. Co-written with Camille Thomas and Nina Rodriguez, Gro Up won the 2022-2023 Reel Sisters Film academy award qualifying fellowship and grant.