Sharony Green
- Writer
- Producer
- Director
Sharony Green co-directed and co-produced "The Grant Green Story," a documentary about her former father-in-law, the late jazz guitarist Grant Green. She teaches History at the University of Alabama. Her degrees include an MA in History and Related Studies (Film, Theatre and History) from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro where she worked with John Gamble and a PhD in History from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where she worked with David Roediger. Prior to working in higher education and film, she was a newspaper journalist (The Miami Herald, The Detroit Free Press and Columbus (Ga) Ledger-Enquirer). Sharony regularly includes film and video works in teaching, research and service as a professor and artist. She founded Purple Tin Productions LLC in 2015.