MEET SHARAREH

Sharareh Drury is an award-winning journalist with a passion for all things entertainment.

She has over 10 years of experience as an editor and reporter, including managing in-house teams and freelancers. Her work focuses on marginalized communities and their successes and challenges within the entertainment industry, including those who identify as BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and SWANA. She is passionate about film, television, gaming, and animation.

From her first job working at the news desk of E! News to her overseeing an eclectic set of pop culture-loving freelancers at Culturess as its Editor-in-Chief to covering breaking news for The Hollywood Reporter and editing complex and engaging features for Variety, Sharareh has participated in many facets of the editorial process. She has also served as an interim editor for MuslimGirl.com, crafting compelling stories and content for Muslim Women’s Day. She is currently covering movies at PEOPLE.

Her passion for journalism was sparked in high school — she attended Germantown High School and participated in the public school’s award-winning television and theater program. In her senior year, Sharareh won a National Student Emmy for her documentary on September 11th — a project she worked on with her father, who had been in the World Trade Center and survived. As an Iranian American journalist, she has made a point wherever she works to uplift diverse and inclusive storytelling.

Sharareh earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Broadcast and Digital Journalism from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Awards for her reporting include: a Southern California Journalism Award for her Variety personal essay on motherhood and a National Entertainment Journalism Award for her Variety feature on Dune facing criticism from the SWANA community.

She is a member of AAJA (Asian American Journalists Association), AMEJA (Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association ) and GALECA (The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics). In addition to her work across digital and print journalism, she has served as a guest lecturer for journalism students at USC, Chapman and NYU.