Francesca Sanders

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 Day

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 Mercury Rising Playwriting Competition,.

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 Proving Ground (Salt Lake City) and Integrity Productions

She has been selected to participate in: Seven Devil’s Playwriting 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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