She is an Associate Professor of Directing/Acting for the Wake Forest University's Department of Theatre and the Director of Communication and Awareness for the Wake Forest Center For Entrepreneurship in the Liberal Arts at Wake Forest University.

Currently Sharon is in pre-production for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as well as dramaturing several new scripts. Sharon's directing credits include Monkey Business, Vieux Carre, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, School for Scandal, Mad Forest, Six Degrees of Separation, The Diary of Anne Frank, Of Mice and Men,and The Miracle Worker

Beyond directing and acting, Sharon is also interested in new play development. In the summer of 2001 she directed the West Coast premiere of playwright, Kim Terrell's, Brother Brian Sister Kathleen staged at the Gascon Center Theatre in Los Angeles. After that she helped to develop and direct the first part of Belfast Blues, the story of performer, Geraldine Hughes' early years growing up in Belfast, Ireland.

She recently worked with Murray Ross of Theatreworks in Colorado Springs to develop and direct a new work, Monkey Business. For the last seven years she has directed in the American Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)New Play Development Program.

In the summer of 2004, with students in Theatre 295 and her colleague Brook Davis, she developed a new play based on the culture of the student athlete. Working with 12 Wake Forest atheletes, Sharon, Brooke and the young men involved in the project developed a series of monologues and dialogues aimed at capturing the unique world of student atheletes. The project was such a great success that it was used the following year at freshman orientation.