Sonhara Eastman
2021 DK Fellow
www.blackgirlsguidetofertility.com | @sonharaeastman | @blackgirlsguidetofertility
Meet the Artist
Sonhara Eastman is a playwright and screenwriter with an M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch. Her plays are known for illuminating cultural experiences and include Pearl and The Club. Sonhara’s plays have been workshopped at 7 Stages, The Classical Theatre of Harlem’s Playwrights Playground, Working Title Playwrights Ethel Woolson Lab, The Goldberg Theatre at NYU, and the La MaMa Theatre. She was a finalist for the National Playwright’s Center Many Voices Fellowship and a semi-finalist for the Made in New York Writer’s Room Program and the WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Competition. She has most recently written and produced her highly talked about Web Series, Black Girls Guide to Fertility, through her own production company. With over 22,000 views on Youtube and several awards to boot, her series is creating a much-needed conversation about infertility while speaking to her voice as a writer.
“TABOO: A Fruitless Love”
A theater and performance piece highlighting infertility within the African American Community; a black woman contemplates divorcing her husband after years of failing to conceive.
Sonhara Eastman
2021 DK Fellow
www.blackgirlsguidetofertility.com | @sonharaeastman | @blackgirlsguidetofertility
Meet the Artist
Sonhara Eastman is a playwright and screenwriter with an M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch. Her plays are known for illuminating cultural experiences and include Pearl and The Club. Sonhara’s plays have been workshopped at 7 Stages, The Classical Theatre of Harlem’s Playwrights Playground, Working Title Playwrights Ethel Woolson Lab, The Goldberg Theatre at NYU, and the La MaMa Theatre. She was a finalist for the National Playwright’s Center Many Voices Fellowship and a semi-finalist for the Made in New York Writer’s Room Program and the WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Competition. She has most recently written and produced her highly talked about Web Series, Black Girls Guide to Fertility, through her own production company. With over 22,000 views on Youtube and several awards to boot, her series is creating a much-needed conversation about infertility while speaking to her voice as a writer.
“TABOO: A Fruitless Love”
A theater and performance piece highlighting infertility within the African American Community; a black woman contemplates divorcing her husband after years of failing to conceive.
