Sharon Soboil

Sharon Soboil is a screenwriter who adapts best-selling books and remarkable true stories into films and series that travel the globe, often to #1. Adaptation is her sweet spot: stories that are equal parts heart and hook. She grew up around the arts in Marin County, her father a successful trumpet player/ bandleader, her mother in theatre. Following in their artistic footsteps, she became a writer. Her film adaptations of the third and fourth novels in the New York Times best-selling YA franchise After. After We Fell and After Ever Happy crossed $20M theatrically and became worldwide #1 hits on Netflix. She also adapted the first two Marked Men novels, another New York Times best-selling franchise, launching with Rule & Shaw. Directed by Nick Cassavetes, the film opened at #1 in France and Latin America, charted in the iTunes Top 10 in the U.S. and Australia, and is now streaming on Hulu. Her Hallmark TV movie Love On The Air was the #1 cable movie of its week and remains a fan favorite. She has several other film and television projects in active development with top talent on board, including her drama series Hot, the extraordinary story of the fearless women who built Palm Springs into the Shangri-La it is today, one of which is her great-grandmother, Harriet Cody. Sharon has sold to or written for networks, studios, and streamers including Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Hulu, Fox, Freeform, Nickelodeon, Participant Media, e One, Voltage, and Girls' Club Entertainment. Her work extends beyond the screen as well. She co-wrote the well-received memoir Gold Standard with True Religion Jeans co-founder Kym Gold (Skyhorse Publishing), and her one-act plays include Go Scotland, performed by Alison Wright, and The Apology, published by Next Stage Press. A member of the WGA and the Television Academy, she came up performing alongside members of the famed Groundlings and Second City. Sharon also gives back to the writing community: she sits on the board of the nonprofit The Women's List, serves each year as a panelist for the UCLA Feature Film Writing Conservancy, and moderates panels at film festivals. Sharon is represented by Josh Kesselman at MGMT Entertainment and Taj McCoy at Laura Dail Literary Agency.