Francesca Sanders
Francesca Sanders is an award winning playwright from Portland, Oregon.
She has been the recipient of the Oregon Literary Fellowship for Drama[1] and the Portland Civic Theatre Guild Fellowship For Theatrical Excellence.[2] She has also been a finalist for the Rosenthal New Play Prize[3] and PlayLabs (Playwright's Center Minneapolis).[4] She was the winner of The Lakewood Theatre New Play Competition[5] and the Mercury Rising Playwriting Competition.[6]
Sanders won a women's work residency at New Perspectives Theatre in New York and has been commissioned by such places as Portland Center Stage[7] Proving Ground (Salt Lake City) and Integrity Productions.[8] She has been selected to participate in the Seven Devil’s Playwriting Conference[9] and the Kennedy Center Summer Playwriting Intensive.
Her plays Celeste and Starla Save Todd and Win Back the Day and I Become A Guitar were performed at the Bartell Theatre in Madison, Wisconsin and the Kitchen Theatre in New York, respectively.
Works
- Lilac Samba
- Rising From The Sugar Bowl
- Urashima Taro
- 8 Views Towards Center
- I Become A Guitar
- Ride The Rustling Wheat
- If You Take One Elf Off The Shelf
- Celeste and Starla Save Todd And Win Back The Day
References
- ↑ literaryarts.org
- ↑
- ↑ Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
- ↑ The Playwrights Center Archived 15 December 2010 at WebCite
- ↑ La Amistad Foundation Archived 15 December 2010 at WebCite
- ↑ Mercury Players Theater Archived 15 December 2010 at WebCite
- ↑ Portland Center Stage Archived 15 December 2010 at WebCite
- ↑ Integrity Productions Archived 15 December 2010 at WebCite
- ↑ Seven Devils Playwright Conference Archived 15 December 2010 at WebCite