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 reporting on breaking stories for E! News' assignment desk and managing pop culture-loving freelancers at Culturess, to editor positions at The Hollywood Reporter and Variety, and her most recent post at PEOPLE covering all things film, Sharareh’s career has run the gamut from web to print and start-up sites to legacy publications. In each of these positions, she has utilized her deep knowledge of entertainment, pop culture and lifestyle topics along with her awareness of what is current and enticing to audiences to expand and enhance any story she touches.

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 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.