Francesca Sanders
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Francesca Sanders is an award winning playwright
from Portland, Oregon
.
She has been the recipient of the Oregon Literary Fellowship for Drama and the Portland Civic Theatre Guild Fellowship For Theatrical Excellence. She has also been a finalist for the Rosenthal New Play Prize and PlayLabs (Playwright's Center Minneapolis). She was the winner of The Lakewood Theatre New Play Competition and the Mercury Rising Playwriting Competition.
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
Proving Ground (Salt Lake City) and Integrity Productions. She has been selected to participate in the Seven Devil’s Playwriting Conference 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.
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
from Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
.
She has been the recipient of the Oregon Literary Fellowship for Drama and the Portland Civic Theatre Guild Fellowship For Theatrical Excellence. She has also been a finalist for the Rosenthal New Play Prize and PlayLabs (Playwright's Center Minneapolis). She was the winner of The Lakewood Theatre New Play Competition and the Mercury Rising Playwriting Competition.
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
Portland Center Stage
Portland Center Stage is a theater company based in Portland, Oregon, United States. Theater productions are presented at the Gerding Theater at the Armory in Portland's Pearl District. PCS was founded in 1988 as the northern sibling of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon...
Proving Ground (Salt Lake City) and Integrity Productions. She has been selected to participate in the Seven Devil’s Playwriting Conference 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
Madison, Wisconsin
Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County. It is also home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison....
and the Kitchen Theatre in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, 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