Sharon Y. Cobb is a member of Writers Guild of America and has sold a
dozen projects to Hollywood including Return of the Sweet Birds to Fox
2000 (producers: Danny Glover and Babyface Edmonds). Her feature collaboration with director Warren Skeels premieres in 2023, titled The Man in the White Van. Her British
romantic comedy
Lighthouse Hill (2004) was
released on DVD after premiering at film festivals and being broadcast
by SkyTV worldwide. Her action movie-of-the-week
On Hostile Ground (2000)
was broadcast on TBS and in foreign territories.
Easter Bunny Super Hero (2007),
a short film Sharon wrote and executive produced won Best of
Jacksonville, Best Screenplay and five other awards in the 2007 48 Hour
Film Project. She's written several award-winning 48 Hour Film Project
shorts since, including Jane (12 nominations, 3 awards), Botched (Best
of Savannah and other awards), and Manifesto (3 awards). Sharon also
wrote The Other Half, a short film competing in the 2012 48 Go Green
International Film Competition.
Sharon is also creator of the comedy video website FunnyFixx.com and
writer/director of the comedy web show, Thurapy, which has an
international fan base. Sharon is author of False Confessions of a True
Hollywood Screenwriter, a novel about surviving the torture of being a
professional writer in Hell-A.
Sharon has been interviewed and featured in numerous magazine and
newspaper articles as well as quoted in film industry books including
Making A Good Writer Great; So You Want To Be A Screenwriter; The
Script is Finished, Now What Do I Do?; Starring in Your Own Life; and
How to Adapt Anything into a Screenplay. She was also interviewed by
London Broadcasting Corp. about her film Lighthouse Hill. She
contributed a chapter on writing neo noir films to Film Noir Reader 2,
which is used in university film curriculum in the U.S. Sharon has
lectured on writing in the U.S. and abroad and is an Advisory Council
member and curriculum creator for Employ Florida Banner Center for the
Creative Industries.
She is a former publisher, editor, journalist, rock musician and race
car driver. She began fiction writing after meeting Tennessee Williams
when she lived in Key West.