I am a multidisciplinary artist who hosts audiences in worlds where language, relationship, and embodiment merge in surprising and illuminating ways. My work lives primarily in performance and film, interweaving choreography, comedy, character, drag, documentary, narrative storytelling, and occasional essays. I use movement and conversation to research gender, family, money, social ties, and artmaking culture itself, in order to reflect back to audiences the ways our personal and political choices at once influence and are influenced by our shapeshifting selves and entanglements. The tone of my work is low-stakes but high-investment, deeply personal without taking itself too seriously.

My work has been presented by On the Boards, the Dance Center at Columbia College Chicago, New Dance Alliance’s Performance Mix 37, OTV | Open Television, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Links Hall Co-MISSIONS, the Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, Midwest RAD Fest, the Pivot Arts Festival, Steppenwolf Theatre’s LookOut Series, the Fly Honey Show, Notes on Masculinity, Salonathon, Synapse Arts - New Works, WUSSY Mag, Full Stop, and at many other stages, pages, spaces, and screenings both DIY and institutional. I’ve been an artist in residence at the University of Chicago Performance Lab, Hambidge, Ragdale, The Croft, and High Concept Labs (as part of Vaudeo Motion). I also regularly collaborate as a performer or dramaturg for independent performers and writers. Past projects have been funded by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE). I was a 2023 Queer|Art Performance Fellow, a 2024 Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist, and a 2025 Oberlin Screenwriters Intensive Fellow.

Contact: nora.sharp@gmail.com

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