Yolo County Library Foundation presents:
In Conversation with Sharon Washington

Friday, March 20th at 6 p.m.
City Hall Galleria
1110 West Capitol Avenue
West Sacramento, CA 95691
$15 tickets – general admission
Contact YCLF for more information

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Award winning actress and author Sharon Washington can currently be seen in The Joker with Joaquin Phoenix, The Kitchen with Tiffany Haddish and On The Basis of Sex with Felicity Jones.

She has an upcoming recurring role in the new ABC series For Life (2020) and can be seen in the final season of Madam Secretary. Other recurring roles include Showtime’s City On A Hill, Gotham, Law & Order: SVU and Damages. She has also guest starred on Blue Bloods, The Blacklist, Golden Boy, White Collar, Royal Pains, NYC 22, Law & Order and Law & Order: CI.  Film appearances include The Bourne Legacy, Michael Clayton, Taking Chance, Freedomland, The School of Rock, Half Nelson, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Malcolm X, and Die Hard With A Vengeance, among others.

Recently Sharon added playwright to her resumé, writing and performing her solo play Feeding The Dragon which received it’s world premiere at City Theatre in Pittsburgh followed by a production at Hartford Stage and from there to a successful run Off-Broadway at Primary Stages at the Cherry Lane Theater in the Spring of 2018. She was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle and the Lucille Lortel Awards and won an Audelco Award for Outstanding Solo Performance.

Ms. Washington received her M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama and her B.A. from Dartmouth College

Feeding the Dragon is Sharon Washington’s autobiographical story of her childhood growing up living in an apartment inside the St. Agnes Branch of the New York Public Library; a typical American family living in a not-so-typical place.

In her one woman play, Ms. Washington revisits this story through the various voices of her childhood, including her father, mother, grandmothers, aunts and uncles, neighbors and friends.

Ms. Washington notes that the other character in the play is New York City. “In the 1970’s it was a very different place. Despite the danger and turmoil of the times there were still neighborhoods where folks looked after one another.” In her play, Ms. Washington shares her memories of one of these special New York City neighborhoods.