francisca da silveira

francisca da silveira (playwright) is a Cape Verdean-American playwright, dramaturg and TV writer. Current WP Theater TOW Playwright in Residence.  Fellowships/Residencies: 2020-2021 Playwrights Realm Writing Fellow, The Public Theater’s 2020-2023 Emerging Writers Group, 2022-2023 Jerome Fellow with the Playwrights’ Center, The Apollo Theater’s New Works initiative 2023 Cohort, Winter 2024 MacDowell Fellow, 2024 Banff Playwrights Lab participant, 2024-2025 Tow Playwright-in-Residence at WP Theater. Plays : NOT-FOR-PROFIT (OR THE EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION PLAY) (La Jolla Playhouse 2021 DNA New Works Series); CAN I TOUCH IT? (2022/2023 Rolling World Premiere at Company One Theatre, Cleveland Public Theatre, Rogue Machine Theatre); PAY NO WORSHIP (2023 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Finalist); MINOR·ITY (Colt Coeur Commission). TV: HBO’s Industry Season 3. BFA: New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. MSc: University of Edinburgh.