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
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References
  1. literaryarts.org
  3. Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
  4. The Playwrights Center Archived December 16, 2010, at WebCite
  5. La Amistad Foundation Archived December 16, 2010, at WebCite
  6. Mercury Players Theater Archived December 16, 2010, at WebCite
  7. Portland Center Stage Archived December 16, 2010, at WebCite
  8. Integrity Productions Archived December 16, 2010, at WebCite
  9. Seven Devils Playwright Conference Archived December 16, 2010, at WebCite
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