Paloma Sierra

Paloma Sierra (she/her) is a writer and director who crafts narratives, musicals, and poetry for theater and film. Inspired by the Hispanic trova tradition, she integrates speech, music, design, and performance to create immersive experiences that transcend linguistic barriers. By taking words beyond the page, Paloma explores how words can surpass the limitations of language to increase opportunities for multilingual narratives and artists.

Her work across stage and film has earned her a U.S. Fulbright scholarship, an appointment as the first Emerging Poet Laureate of Allegheny County, and recognition from the Dramatists Guild of America and the Writers Guild Foundation. She has developed new plays, musicals, operas, and spoken word with Jermyn Street Theatre, Theatre Now New York, Project Y Theatre Company, New Hazlett Theater, Conch Shell Productions, and City of Asylum, securing development and production opportunities at renowned venues like Edinburgh Fringe, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and the Kennedy Center. Her videopoem “I Am Soil Breaking Off” received international acclaim, winning the inaugural ¡Tú Cuentas! Cine Youth Festival Grand Prize.

She is a proud alumna of LAMDA, Carnegie Mellon, CELCIT, the Fornés Playwriting Workshop, the Academy for New Musical Theatre, and Eberly Center’s Future Faculty Program.

Website: www.pasierra.com

Credits

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Lonely Londoners, Jermyn Street Theatre, 2024
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, You Should Get to Know You like I Do, Backronym Productions, 2024
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Welcome to Bettyland, London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art, 2024
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, They Don’t Pay? We Won’t Pay!, London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art, 2024
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art, 2024
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Big White Fog, London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art, 2024
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Girls Guide to Saving the World, London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art, 2023
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Spur of the Moment, London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art, 2023
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Taming of the Shrew, Santa Cruz Shakespeare, 2023
DRAMATURG, Spanglish Sh!t, Berkeley Repertory Theatre: The Ground Floor, 2023
DIRECTOR, Adults, National Women's Theatre WTFringe Festival, 2023
WRITER, Rosa: The Day of the Dead, White Snake Projects Let’s Celebrate! Festival, 2022
WRITER-DIRECTOR, I Am Soil Breaking Off, The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, 2021
WRITER, Close But Not Too Close!, Project Y Theatre: Women in Theatre Festival, 2021
DRAMATURG, The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano, New Hazlett Theatre / Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2021
DRAMATURG, Aftershocks & Reset New Work Series, Conch Shell Productions, 2021
OBSERVERSHIP, Acting for the Camera, Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, 2017 – 2019

Training

MA in Directing, LAMDA, 2024
MFA in Dramatic Writing, Carnegie Mellon, 2021
BHA in Creative Writing and Drama, Carnegie Mellon, 2019