From Travis Pike, Chairman and Managing Director, New Playwrights Foundation:

Life is full of broken promises. Death makes but one and keeps it. Sharon Gilbert, Secretary of IWOSC (Independent Writers of Southern California) and member of the Alameda Writers Group and the New Playwrights Foundation, is dead at age 57.

She was a brilliant pianist, a trained singer and, as many of us well know, an excellent script analyst. She had been a reader for various producers affiliated with major production companies here in Los Angeles and until recently, attended New Playwrights Foundation Workshops where she not only critiqued scripts for our members, but frequently followed up, encouraging individual writers and offering suggestions to improve their works. She will be missed.