Sharon Lawrence (Katharine Graham) earned a degree in journalism from the UNC-Chapel Hill, and has gone on to be prominently featured on stage and screen over the last 25 years. Her television work includes her multiple Emmy-nominated and SAG-award-winning run on NYPD Blue, and work in The Gaze on YouTube that earned a 5th Emmy nomination. Her series, Joe Pickett, on Spectrum and Paramount+ is in its 2nd season of production and her Hallmark movies The Christmas House 1 & 2 have both earned GLAAD nominations. Sharon has had notable stints on hit shows such as Rebel, Queen Sugar, Shameless, Dynasty, On Becoming a God in Central Florida, Desperate Housewives, Rizzoli & Iles, and Grey’s Anatomy, which earned her an Emmy nomination. Film work includes the indie hits Middle of Nowhere from Ava DuVernay and The Lost Husband, both on Netflix. Sharon spent 10 years on Broadway in Cabaret, Fiddler on the Roof and as Velma in Chicago and since in LA at The Mark Taper Forum, in Poor Behavior and The Mystery Of Love and Sex, the cabaret, Love, Noel, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, in several roles at the Geffen Playhouse and at the Pasadena Playhouse in A Song At Twilight, A Kid Like Jake and Orson’s Shadow, for which she was nominated for an Ovation Award and won the LA Drama Critics Circle Award. She has been part of The Shot’s creative team since its first reading at Ojai Playwright’s Conference in 2017. Non- profit service plays a major role in Sharon's life as former Chair of the Women in Film Foundation, current Chair the BoD of Heal The Bay and as a Trustee of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation. IG @sharonelawrence

Michelle Joyner (Director/Dramaturg) has helmed plays locally with Shakespeare and Co., Berkshire Playwrights Lab, Great Barrington Public Theatre and Theatre Fest. West coast: Center Stage, Santa Monica Rep, Greenlight Productions, LA Women’s Shakespeare Co and Ojai Playwrights Conference. Internationally: The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She has also directed a short film and leads The Long Table, a women’s writing group. She is an accomplished stage and screen actor with a long career, most recently seen this season in The Approach at Shakespeare & Company. Michelle has written ten studio screenplays and is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA, AEA, WGA, and The Dramatists Guild. Her first full length play Iodine will have a reading later this year. Thank you Berkshire Voices!

Robin Gerber (Playwright) The Shot, Robin’s first play, was selected for the 2017 Ojai Playwright’s Conference. After a well-spent youth involving drugs, sex, and feminist activism, Robin took the next logical step and became a Washington, D.C. lawyer. She worked on Capitol Hill for a legendary leader of the House of Representatives, before leaving to be a union lobbyist during the Clinton years. Robin’s post-politics writing life includes: the bestselling advice book, Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way (Penguin), Katharine Graham (Penguin), Barbie and Ruth, about the founder of Mattel (HarperCollins), and the novel Eleanor vs. Ike, which imagines Eleanor Roosevelt running for president in 1952 (HarperAvon). She is deeply grateful to Sharon Lawrence and Michelle Joyner for their five years of hard work and dedication to bringing The Shot to a wider audience, and to Laurie Bernhard for her generosity. Robingerber.com