Sharyn Rothstein is an award-winning playwright and television writer. She is currently a writer and Co-Executive Producer on Orphan Black: Echoes, the spin-off of the sci-fi hit Orphan Black, soon to be on AMC. She was a writer/producer for the legal drama SUITS for five seasons, and has developed shows for Apple TV+, AMC and Bravo.

Sharyn’s plays and musicals have been called “a force of nature” by Time Out and “gutsy, incisive and sharp-toothed” by The Chicago Tribune. Her shows have been produced around the country. Her adaptation of the beloved film Hester Street will premiere at Washington D.C.’s Theater J this Spring of 2024, featuring music by Joel Waggoner and directed by Oliver Butler, followed by the premiere of her book-banning drama Bad Books at Round House Theatre in 2025. Her play By the Water, about a Staten Island family dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, was first produced by Manhattan Theater Club and Ars Nova, and was the recipient of the American Theater Critics Association Francesca Primus Prize. Her family comedy All the Days, was produced at the McCarter Theater Center. Her technology drama, Right to Be Forgotten, premiered at Arena Stage, and was produced in Chicago at the Raven Theater in 2023, and has been heralded by New York Magazine technology columnist Kara Swisher as "the best dramatic depiction about tech and its power over our world." Her drama The Invested was published in New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2013 by Smith & Kraus. Her audio drama, Deep Fake, a modern update of the My Fair Lady story and an unsparing (and hilarious) look at America’s capitalist tech culture is available on Audible.

Sharyn has been a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Youngblood, Ars Nova’s Playgroup, the WP Theatre Lab and the New American Writer’s Group at Primary Stages. She is a Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellow, a four-time winner of the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award and a recipient of the Vrandenburg Jewish Play Prize. She has received new play commissions from Williamstown Theatre Festival, Manhattan Theater Club, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and the Chautauqua Institution among others. Her plays have been published by DPS, Samuel French, Playscripts and others.

Sharyn holds an MFA in dramatic writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and a Master’s in Public Health from Hunter College. She teaches television writing at NYU.