Sharyn Rothstein is an award-winning playwright and television writer. Her newest play Bad Books is a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere play and winner of the David Goldman Prize for New American Plays. Bad Books was first produced by Florida Studio Theatre (Sarasota, FL), Round House Theatre (Bethesda, MD), Williamston Theatre (Williamston, MI), and Curious Theatre Company (Denver, CO) and will be produced at other theaters across America this year.

Sharyn’s Helen Hayes Award-nominated musical adaptation of the beloved film Hester Street (with music and lyrics by Joel Waggoner) was produced at Washington DC's Theater J in the Spring 2024. 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 The Chautauqua Institution, 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 currently a writer and Co-Executive Producer on CBS’s new show EINSTEIN. She has also written for SUITS LA, the spin-off of the hit legal drama SUITS, for which she wrote and produced for five seasons. Sharyn was a writer and Co-Executive Producer on AMC's Orphan Black: Echoes, 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 and Columbia University.