SHARYN ROTHSTEIN

Playwright * TV Writer * Speechwriter * Copywriter * Writing Professor

Upcoming Productions

BAD BOOKS

Williamston Theatre

Williamston, MI

April 23-May 31, 2026

“Bad Books” imagines a timely debate about parents’ rights

spun out to extremes.” - The Washington Post

A concerned mom. A bad-ass librarian. A real conversation about the passions and peril of banning books.

The My Fair Lady story gets a thoroughly modern, thoroughly invigorating update in this unsparing (and hilarious) look at America’s capitalist tech culture. Eli is a tough young woman who makes paper flowers on Venice Beach, where she lives in a homeless tent camp. A chance encounter with a smug tech CEO, Hig, sparks an intriguing quid pro quo: she brings him an image-burnishing entrepreneurial offer, and he, in turn, hires her to present GAL - his new artificial intelligence service - at an upcoming conference. The clash of cultures results in a surprisingly insightful exploration of the shady side of AI, sexism in the tech world, economic disparity, and the human cost of relentless progress. 

Deep fake

An audio drama available on Audible

Directed by Rachel Chavkin

https://www.audible.com/pd/Deep-Fake-Audiobook/B09F7217ML

Television

Writer/Co-Executive Producer on EINSTEIN, on CBS this Fall

Writer/Co-Executive Producer on SUITS LA, on NBC and Peacock

Writer/producer for ORPHAN BLACK:ECHOES, available on AMC+

Writer/producer for USA’s legal drama SUITS for five seasons

A theatrical adaptation of the beloved 1975 film by Joan Micklin Silver, Hester Street depicts the uplifting journey of Gitl, a young Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe, who arrives with her son to meet her husband Jake in the tumult of the late-19th century Lower East Side. Separated from his wife and the provincial limitations of his upbringing, Jake has fully embraced his new American life—one that has little in common with Gitl’s old-time ways.

Faced with the disintegration of her marriage in a world she can barely comprehend, Gitl must find her voice, protect her son, and redefine her identity. A deeply moving new stage adaptation by Sharyn Rothstein (Arena Stage’s Right to Be Forgotten), featuring songs by Broadway’s Joel Waggoner, and directed by Oliver Butler (Broadway’s What the Constitution Means to Me), assembling a nationally-renowned team of artists and produced in association with New York-based producers Michael Rabinowitz and Ira Deutchman, Hester Street is an unforgettable show, awash in the humor, heartbreak and hope essential to the Jewish immigrant experience.

HESTER STREET

Featuring original music by Joel Waggoner

Directed by Oliver Butler

Helen Hayes Award nominee