Paloma Sierra

LAMDA Productions

Is God Is
Assistant Director
Written by Aleshea Harris
Directed by Kaleya Baxe
LAMDA, 2024

Welcome to Bettyland
Assistant Director
Written by Rebecca Hammond
Directed by Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu
LAMDA, 2024

They Don’t Pay? We Won’t Pay!
Assistant Director
Written by Deborah McAndrew
Directed by Jonathan Young
LAMDA, 2024

Biography of a Constellation
Director
Biography of a Constellation
The Orange Tree Theatre
Written by Lila Rose Kaplan
LAMDA, 2024

Medusa
Director & Writer
Athens Conservatoire
LAMDA, 2024

Gutters
Director & Writer
MishMash Festival
LAMDA, 2024

Other Experience

The Lonely Londoners
Assistant Director
Written by Roy Williams OBE
Directed by Ebenezer Bamgboye
Jermyn Street Theatre, 2024

La batalla de los clásicos
Writer
Music by Johanny Navarro
The Olga Iglesias Project, 2024

You Should Get to Know You Like I Do
Assistant Director
Music by M. Lucky
Directed by Isabella Bazoni
Backronym Productions, 2024

The Taming of the Shrew
Assistant Director
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Robynn Rodriguez
Santa Cruz Shakespeare, 2023

Adults
Director & Translator
Written by Maizy Broderick Scarpa
National Women’s Theatre Festival, 2023

Spanglish Sh!t
Dramaturg
Book and lyrics by Samora La Perdida
Score by Matthew Zweibel, Josiah Handelman & Mobéy Lola Irizarry
Berkeley Repertory Theatre, 2023

Rosa: The Day of the Dead (Opera)
Writer
Directed by Laine Rettmer
White Snake Projects Let’s Celebrate!, 2022

Cola’o: A Bilingual Trova
Writer
Music by Pedro E. Franco Fraticelli
Directed by Moses Garcia
Theatre Now New York Sound Bites, 2022

I Am Soil Breaking Off
Director & Writer
Short Film
2021

The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano
Dramaturg
Directed & written by Tlaloc Rivas
New Hazlett Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2021

Aftershocks / Reset New Work Series
Dramaturg
Conch Shell Productions, 2021

Teaching Experience

Tools and Strategies to Translate Stories for Stage Performance
National Women’s Theatre Festival WTFCon23,2023

Writing to Find Inspiration
City of Asylum Pittsburgh, 2021

Playwriting Instructor
Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, 2020 – 2021

Teaching Assistant, Acting for the Camera Carnegie Mellon School of Drama
2017 – 2019

Poetry Instructor
Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts, 2018

Training

MA Directing, London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art, 2024

MFA Dramatic Writing, Carnegie Mellon University, 2021

BHA Creative Writing and Drama, Carnegie Mellon University, 2019

Additional Training

Katie Mitchell Theatre and Opera Directing Masterclass, 2024

Universidad de Buenos Aires Literary Translation Training, 2022

Centro Latinoamericano de Creación e Investigación Teatral, 2022

Eberly Center Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation Future Faculty Program, 2021

Fornés Playwriting Workshop, 2021

Academy for New Musical Theatre Book Writing Workshop, 2019 – 2020

Awards

Dramatists Guild of America Catalyst Fellowship Semi-Finalist, 2023

Writers Guild Foundation Training Finalist, 2023

The Fulbright Program U.S. Student Scholarship, 2022

¡Tú Cuentas! Cine Youth Festival Film Festival Grand Prize, 2021

The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Further Fund Grant, 2021

Sloan Foundation Screenwriting Grant Finalist, 2021

City Theatre Miami Short Play Award Finalist, 2020