Sharon McNight made her Broadway debut in 1989 in Starmites, creating the role of Diva for which she received a Tony Award nomination and was the recipient of the coveted Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut, which was presented to her by Carol Channing. She has since developed her one-woman musical Red Hot Mama, about Sophie Tucker, which had a critically acclaimed three-month run off-Broadway at the York Theatre.

Her regional credits include an award-winning Dolly in Hello, Dolly! at the Peninsula Civic Light Opera and Sister Hubert in Nunsense in Los Angeles and San Francisco where she received the Bay Area Critics Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Along with her stage performances, Sharon has narrated the documentary There That Night, the story of the Provincetown, MA fire and was featured in the A&E documentary It's Burlesque. She has also been seen in episodes of Silk Stalkings, Seinfeld, and The Five Mrs. Buchanan's.