Sharon Carlson

Sharon Carlson is an adjunct professor of voice at Columbia College Chicago in the Music Department and in the Theatre Department.  She has been a spokesperson for public television channel WTTW in Chicago for twelve years.  A member of Actor’s Equity Association, she has appeared in scores of theatrical productions.  Ms. Carlson has served multiple terms on the boards of Actor’s Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Radio and Television Actors.

Her most recent project is to produce the libretto for Black Hawk Speaks in collaboration with internationally renowned composer Patricia Morehead.

Recent theatre credits include Ravinia Music Theatre’s production of Sunday in the Park with George featuring Patti Lupone, Audra McDonald and Michael Ceveris.  Also, Sharon played Stella Deems in Little Theatre on the Square’s production of Follies, featuring Ann B. Davis, Joan Roberts, Bill Hayes and Colleen Zinc.  Her New York credits include Comedy of Errors (GeVa); Celestina (Producers Club); and Hot Flashes on the Way to Spandex (The Duplex).  She has appeared in numerous Chicago productions, among which some of her favorites are Lost in Yonkers, Grandma Kurnitz, (Royal George); A…My Name is Alice, Woman #4, (Ivanhoe Theatre); The Sound of Music, Mother Superior, (Drury Lane Oak Brook); Once in a Lifetime, Mrs. Walker, (Court Theatre); Summer Stock Murder, Doris/Cindi/Mara, (Theatre Building).  Favorite regional roles include Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney Todd (Human Race Theatre); Mama Rose, Gypsy, and Frau Schneider, Cabaret (Skylight Opera); Ruth, The Pirates of Penzance (Lyric Opera Cleveland); Madame Arcati, Blithe Spirit (American Theatre Center); Kate, All My Sons (Peninsula Players); Dorothy Parker and others, Together Again (Lyric Opera San Diego).

Ms. Carlson was Disney’s TV Talent Director for Out of the Box for three years, as well as being an on-camera talent.  Sharon has appeared in numerous TV and radio commercials and has been honored with a Jeff Citation and an Artisan Award. This classically trained singer writes and performs her Opera Satire productions nationally in concert and cabaret, teasing Grand Opera with such belles as La Triviata, Madama Butterball and Carmencita.