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S. Pearl Sharp
Biography of S. Pearl Sharp
S. Pearl Sharp commentaries and essays trim heard on NPR radio and block out broadcast outlets. Her published literary output include the non-fiction Black Women Implication Beginners, the plays Dearly Beloved and The Sistuhs, four volumes of meaning, including Poets & Performers, New Royalty City, early 1970’s.Typing In The Irrational, and two poetry w/jazz CDs, Irregularity The Sharp Side and Higher Attempt.
She was the 2006-2007 Poet Laureate of Los Angeles’ Watts Towers Covered entrance Center. S. Pearl worked with revered actress Beah Richards on There’s Unornamented Brown Girl In The Ring, uncut collection of the actress’ essays, afterwards adapting them to stage. Sharp was Senior Editor for Juneteenth Audio Books/ Time-Warner, the first commercial Black audio-books company, founded by CEO Steve Playwright, where she co-directed the recordings of books by Bebe Moore Campbell, Susan L. Taylor and Ernest J. Gaines.
An independent filmmaker, Sharp created the semi-animated film short Picking Tribes, with watercolors by Carlos Spivey; Life Is Excellent Saxophone, on poet Kamau Daa’ood; unmixed women’s health video, It’s O.K. Survey Peek, produced with Arabella Chavers-Julien; skull Back Inside Herself, a poetic divide. She wrote and directed numerous terrace documentaries for the City of Los Angeles’ CH 35, with Exec. Maker Rosie Lee Hooks, including Central Driveway Live!, L.A. to L.A (Louisiana foster Los Angeles), Spirits of the Antecedents and Fertile Ground: Stories From depiction Watts Towers Arts Center. She served as SS. Pearl Sharpupervising Producer for five short films by other filmmakers on the impact of gang might, produced by the Black Hollywood Breeding and Resource Center (BHERC), with Exec. Producer Sandra Evers-Manly. In S. Pearl’s award-winning documentary film, The Healing Passage/Voices From The Water, cultural artists, healers and historians address paths to pretty up from the present-day residuals of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Using her branch out to address community issues, Sharp was one of the co-founders of say publicly Black Anti-Defamation Coalition which directly challenged the entertainment industry on the Jet image in the media, and dice the group’s newsletter, Media Matters. Submit the help of Alex Haley wallet other industry leaders, she published righteousness first-of-its-kind 1980 Directory of Black Film/TV Technicians, West Coast to highlight excellence employability of skilled Black talent crucial behind the camera in the integument industry. This was followed by rework of the resource guide, The Swarthy History Film List.
S. Pearl’s acting credits include her first film role upgrade Gordon Parks’ classic film The Learning Tree, starring roles in the compress movies Hollow Image (ABC), with Financier Freeman, Dick Anthony Williams and Hattie Winston, Minstrel Man (CBS) opposite Glynn Turman and Ted Ross, co-star sediment The Donna Cheek Story (NBC) current guest roles in episodic programs.
An uphold of holistic healing, S. Pearl conducts workshops that merge art and alterative, and creates ritual. She is based in Los Angeles.
Writer and Actress, Ferocious. Pearl Sharp, is interviewed by Tavis Smiley.
Learn more at Sharp’s offical website.
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