- Francesca Sanders
Francesca Sanders is an award winning playwright from
Portland, Oregon .Her plays include:
*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 DayShe has been the recipient of the Oregon Literary Fellowship for Drama [ [http://www.literaryarts.org literaryarts.org] ] and the Portland Civic Theatre Guild Fellowship For Theatrical Excellence. [ [http://www.drammyinfo.com/pctawards.html] ]
She has also been a Finalist for the Rosenthal New Play Prize [ [http://www.cincyplay.com Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park] ] and PlayLabs (Playwright's Center Minneapolis). [ [http://www.pwcenter.org The Playwrights Center] ] She was the winner of The Lakewood Theatre New Play Competition [ [http://www.lakewoodcenter.org La Amistad Foundation] ] Mercury Rising Playwriting Competition, [ [http://www.mercuryplayerstheatre.com Mercury Players Theater] ] .
She won a women's work residency at New Perspectives Theatre in New York and has been commissioned by such places as Portland Center Stage [ [http://www.pcs.org Portland Center Stage] ] Proving Ground (Salt Lake City) and Integrity Productions [ [http://www.integrityproductions.org Integrity Productions] ]
She has been selected to participate in: Seven Devil’s Playwriting Conference [ [http://www.sevendevils.org Seven Devils Playwright Conference] ] and the Kennedy Center Summer Playwriting Intensive.
Next up is Celeste and Starla Save Todd and Win Back the Day at The Bartell Theatre in Madison, Wisconsin and I Become A Guitar at the Kitchen Theatre in New York.
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