Sharon Wheatley
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Sharon Wheatley (born December 7, 1967) is an American actress, singer, and writer known for her work on the Broadway stage and in the New York theatre scene. She performed in the Tony Award winning Broadway musical Come from Away throughout its entire Broadway run as Diane,[1] a friendly Texan who finds love when the transcontinental flight she is aboard is suddenly diverted to Gander, Newfoundland, due to the events of September 11, 2001. Wheatley had been with the production since its first professional production at the La Jolla Playhouse[2] in the spring of 2015.
Wheatley published her first memoir, 'Til the Fat Girl Sings: From an Overweight Nobody to a Broadway Somebody,[3] in 2006, to positive reviews from outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Good Morning America, and BroadwayWorld.[4][5] In 2022, Wheatley published her second novel, Drive: Stories From Somewhere in the Middle of Nowhere.[6]