Sharon Spell is an award-winning writer, storyteller, comedian and former docent living in New York City.

Her writing explores themes of mental healthcare, grief and loss, and how history is shared. Her scripts have won Best Comedy Short Screenplay at the Austin After Dark Film Festival and Finalist at the Vail Film Festival. Sharon recently accepted the honor of a stay at St. Nell’s Humor Writing Residency, and has also written for a project with American University and GoodLaugh at Center for Media and Social Impact.

Notable performance credits include Breakout Artist at Carolines on Broadway, two-time Moth StorySLAM winner, and on stage in various productions at UCBT NY. She's appeared on truTV's Adam Ruins Everything, MTV's Decoded, UCBComedy, IFC and Funny or Die. and produced and starred in a short of her script, You're Doing Great! She also appeared as Sarah "Big Huck" Sanders at Town Hall and on Making Podcasts Great Again. (See more at IMDb).

Originally from Mississippi, Sharon hasn't totally lost her accent (or her mind). Even though she’s no longer a docent, she still has a tour guide air about her and folks frequently ask her which aisle things are in while she's shopping (she usually knows).

Sharon’s solo storytelling show, "Welcome to Midday: History Repeating," is about how after growing up in Mississippi, she landed a job as a Victorian house museum tour guide in Pittsburgh—all because she was trying not to become her mother. She made all different choices than her mom had made, to find herself just like her mom—but worse! As she led recurring tours through both public and private rooms where a robber baron and his family once lived, it dawned on Sharon how similar that was to how she compartmentalized her life. She had made a series of mistakes and to publicly save face, she couldn’t let on how miserable she was in private. Folks heard her southern accent and asked, "How did you get here?" At the time, she wasn't ready to confront the reasons.

No matter where we go,
history will repeat until we learn from our past.

Directed by Julia Whitehouse

Her original pilot script, Welcome to Midday, is a fictionalized story based on her time as a house museum docent in Pittsburgh. During tours of this fictional house, the characters take stock of the question, “Who controls the narrative?” This script placed as a Finalist in the Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition, and Quarter-Finalist in the Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards. Read more about WTM and listen to the original theme song here.

Her first original pilot script, You’re Doing Great! is based on her experience of losing her parents within the same month. The story diverges from real life when the main character moves back to Mississippi to face her past while grieving. It’s a darkly comedic look at grief, mental health and moving forward. This piece is an official selection and finalist in ten festivals, including winning "Best Comedy Short Screenplay" at the Austin After Dark Film Festival, and is a TV Pilot Finalist at the Vail Film Festival Screenplay Competition. Read more about YDG and watch the sizzle reel here.