Sharon Y. Cobb
- Writer
- Producer
- Script and Continuity Department
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.
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.
