Sharon Curcio entered the NYC Ad Agency world as an account executive and left as a copywriter. Sharon’s lyric play “Contemplating Fire” staged as an oratorio in 2022. Her scripts include ASAYI (15th century Japanese fictional history) and RESONANCE (climate change drama). She and Diana Saenz co-wrote: ‘TIL SHE COMES HOME (military drama) and COWBOY POET (Western based on the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, NV). Sharon’s diverse careers, corporate, military, and in education emerge vividly in her writings.
The historical fiction novel "Asayi" was released in May, 2024 and won a Literary Titan Gold Star in August, 2024.
Unique traits: left-handed!
Resonance Budget: $1M - $5M | Action A rejected theorist’s paper on arctic ice melts, land rise, and noise sites proves true fifteen years later, and two scientist friends rush to locate him to control the site noise, but the Pentagon arrests the three scientists, so the theorist’s teen protégé (and friends) field their daring experiment.
'Til She Comes Home Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller SFC Chris Avendano and SGT Ava Johnson bond while training as Arabic linguists. Then Chris goes undercover in Yemen; but when her partial remains surface, and NSA refuses to investigate, Ava, outraged, goes to Sanaa alone to recover her body.
Cowboy Poet Budget: $100K - $1M | Western ⋄ Romance Grieving ranch widow Barbara Rayburn still talks aloud to her late husband but when his publisher presses her to read from his last anthology at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, NV, she accidentally runs into “the one who got away.”
Asayi Budget: $1M - $5M | Historical Set in fifteenth century Japan, a noble autistic teenage girl is framed for adultery, tortured and left to die in the countryside until an insurgent ronin-monk discovers her and uses her “ghost” to topple an Ashekaga shogunate.
Washington University in St Louis
(1975-1977)
Carnegie-Mellon University
(1972-1975)