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 City, 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
- ^ [1]
- ^ Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
- ^ The Playwrights Center Archived December 16, 2010, at WebCite
- ^ La Amistad Foundation Archived December 16, 2010, at WebCite
- ^ Mercury Players Theater Archived December 16, 2010, at WebCite
- ^ Portland Center Stage Archived December 16, 2010, at WebCite
- ^ Integrity Productions Archived December 16, 2010, at WebCite
- ^ Seven Devils Playwright Conference Archived December 16, 2010, at WebCite