Francesca Sanders

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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 Day

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] Mercury Rising Playwriting Competition,[6].

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[7] Proving Ground (Salt Lake City) and Integrity Productions[8]

She has been selected to participate in: Seven Devil’s Playwriting Conference[9] 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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