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Sharon Kenny writes songs and the words that go with them. She lives in New York.

Kenny's music has been prominently featured worldwide on television (Netflix, Lifetime, Amazon), most notably with five placements on the hit show, Dance Moms.  Her song "Hotel Heart" reached #68 on the iTunes Singer/Songwriter charts; her music has cumulatively garnered nearly 30 million views on YouTube.

Upcoming projects include The Real Housewives of New York City: An Unauthorized Opera (premiering Off-Broadway 2027), an original stage musical with Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door/The Carlson Company, and the animated feature Brave Knight (starring Jordan Fisher, Skylar Astin, Sydney Agudong, Peyton List, and Meg Donnelly).

Sharon’s theatre work has been produced and/or developed at New York Theatre Workshop, Manhattan Theatre Club, 92NY, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Ars Nova, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, The Yale Institute of Music Theatre, The Institute for American Musical Theatre, Interlochen Center for the Arts, and Stages Theatre Company.  She is a graduate of The Hartt School and an alumna of The Johnny Mercer Songwriter's Project, Prospect Theatre Company's Musical Theatre Lab, Vineyard Arts Project, and Space on Ryder Farm.  She has performed sold out shows to Joe's Pub, Le Poisson Rouge, and the Gramercy Theatre, and has been a finalist for the Fred Ebb, Jonathan Larson, and Richard Rodgers Awards.

Kenny’s work in Children’s Theatre includes adaptations of the NY Times bestsellers What Do You Do With an Idea?, Maybe (both by Kobi Yamada), Dragons Love Tacos, Dragons Love Tacos 2: The Sequel (by Adam Rubin), as well as numerous commissions for 92NY (The Tempest, Ice Queen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream).

Additionally, Kenny serves as Musical Director to Broadway’s Abby Mueller (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Six). As a pianist, she has played extensively on Broadway.