Paloma Sierra
2024 MA Directing
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
Website:
https://www.pasierra.com/
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
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
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
Emerging Poet Laureate of Allegheny County, 2020