SHARON COOPER is an award-winning educator, former English teacher, internationally produced and published playwright, and expert reading and writing coach for young people and adults.
For more than twenty years, she has worked with students and adults in New York City through both in-person and virtual sessions, as well as with clients across the United States via Zoom. She helps people become stronger, more confident readers and writers through a compassionate, individualized approach that builds skill, voice, and independence.
Sharon also specializes in high-stakes writing, including college application essays, graduate school and law school personal statements, scholarship essays, admissions portfolios, and other professional writing. She guides students and professionals in discovering and articulating their authentic voice while crafting compelling essays that reflect their strengths, experiences, and goals.
In New York City, she has tutored students from The Browning School, Convent of the Sacred Heart, Dalton, the United Nations International School (UNIS), Horace Mann, Riverdale Country School, Trevor Day School, and many others. She has helped students strengthen executive functioning, analytical and creative writing, reading comprehension, inference skills, grammar, and a wide range of academic abilities.
As a seventeen-year-old in Chesterfield, Virginia, Sharon wrote her first full-length play and won a statewide competition that led to a professional workshop and staged reading. She has been writing ever since. Her plays have been produced in Canada, England, India, Germany, the Netherlands, Hungary, Australia, and across the United States. Her work appears in The Bedford Introduction to Literature, Reading Literature and Writing Argument, Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays, and several volumes of The Best 10-Minute Plays series. Sharon's plays are taught on college campuses across the country, and she is a frequent guest professor.
Sharon holds an M.A. in Writing from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Before moving to New York City, she attended Longwood University in Virginia, where she studied English, Theatre, and Secondary Education. During her first year of teaching in Virginia, she received the prestigious Sallie Mae Award for Excellence in Teaching, which honors outstanding first-year educators.
After relocating to New York City, she directed ten plays at The Browning School, working with students from many of the city’s leading independent schools and overseeing every aspect of each production. At Convent of the Sacred Heart, she taught English and introduced leadership training programs for the independent school community.
Sharon is also an award-winning filmmaker whose two short films have received critical recognition.
Believing that meaningful learning requires balance, she has taught yoga for more than twenty years. She trained in Hatha Yoga at the Integral Yoga Institute and has worked with individuals and groups of all sizes. Her experience includes chair yoga, gentle yoga, Hatha Yoga, yoga for high school athletes, and relaxation and meditation techniques.
Sharon draws on her background in education, yoga, leadership development, and professional writing to bring a thoughtful, individualized approach to every client. She recognizes that each learner has unique strengths, goals, and challenges, and tailors her coaching to help them develop the skills, confidence, and independence to succeed.
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