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Shara Ashley Zeiger

Shara Ashley Zeiger

The Platform Group
Actor, Playwright, Producer, Screenwriter, Voice Actor and Director

New York City, New York

Member Since:
November 2017
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About Shara

Shara Ashley Zeiger is a working actor/writer from Philadelphia residing in NYC. She recently did roles on The Plot Against America on HBO, the new Tracy Morgan Show "The Last O.G." on TBS, "Bull" on CBS, and in the film "Weight" (with Randy Quaid and Kathy Najimy). As a performer Shara's done work on camera with ABC, MTV, VH1, National Geographic, CollegeHumor, and with many festival running films including "Aphasia" (Tribeca Film Festival/Palm Springs) "Gasp!" (Claremont-Ferrand, ), "High Deny" (Buffalo Niagra Film Festival), and "Girl Clown" (Big Apple Film Festival). Shara was in the National Tour of Imaginary Invalid, and has worked at many theaters Off-Broadway and regionally. Shara is the founding artistic director of The Platform Group in NYC where she produces her work in film and Off-Broadway theatre. Shara is the playwright behind "Roughly Speaking" her critically acclaimed play with rap about the homeless (she was also in) that ran in NYC Fall 2016. It was hailed by Broadwaybox as one of the top 6 plays to see after the election (included with Hamilton & Sweat) and one of the top 6 shows to see with a limited run by Playbill. Her play "The Dark Place" was part of the Emerging Artist Theater's New Works Festival in 2014. She is the screenwriter behind shorts "Tupperware Party" (produced by Orange is the New Black's Miriam Morales), "JOE" ( Sedona International Film Festival, Newport Beach Film Festival, Oaxaca Film festival, etc ), "The Red Lotus" (New York Shorts Int Film Festival, Golden Door Int. Film Festival), and "Faustess" ( Northeast Film Festival, New Filmmakers Festival ). "JOE" is currently shopping as a series, and "The Red Lotus" has a feature script version Shara is looking to make. Shara's also currently developing the series "Oy...a New Comedy Series", "Yo Sidekicks", and the short films "Secret Feminism" and "Mustache." Shara devised dozens of new works with students through The Queens Theatre, as a company member with Hivemind Collective, and recently an adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland" she then directed with students in Chengdu, China. She's a reader for The O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference, and sits on the board for NY's Educational Theater Association. Shara is alum of Ithaca College, The O'Neill Center's National Theater Institute, The Upright Citizens Bridage, Studio 5, and AGR. She is a proud member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA & The Dramatists Guild.

Gender:
Female
Height:
5' 3"
Body type:
Heavyset
Hair:
Shoulder Length
Hair color:
Brown
Eyes:
Brown

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  • Oy...a New Comedy Series

    Oy...a New Comedy Series Budget: $0 - $100K | Comedy At the suggestion of her mother, Dani Solomon becomes an adviser for a high school Jewish sorority and the trajectory of her life is forever changed. 

  • JOE

    JOE Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy Jillian gets fired from corporate America, gets a job as a barista to figure life out, meets the man of her dreams on the street, and instinctively lies about what pays the bills. Turns out his favorite coffee shop is where she works. It's "Sex & the City" meets "Cheers" at a coffee shop.

  • Yo Sidekicks

    Yo Sidekicks Budget: $0 - $100K | Comedy Three out of work superhero sidekick ladies come together to create their own opportunities and through their misadventures harness their own power. 

  • The Red Lotus

    The Red Lotus Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama Michelle drags her sister Debbie to a yoga retreat only to unveil a secret that will force them to grapple with their own ideas of women's reproductive rights. 

  • IMustacheYou

    IMustacheYou Budget: $0 - $100K | Comedy A silent film about Abby, an agoraphobic who receives an invitation to love, self acceptance, and the outside world.

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Education

  • Ithaca College

  • National Theater Institute (NTI)

  • Upright Citizens Brigade

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