francisca da silveira, TOW Playwright in Residence

francisca is a Cape Verdean-American playwright, tv writer and Boston native whose work has been featured in  ArtsBoston,  The LA Times, The Boston Globe and  American Theatre Magazine. In 2023, her play CAN I TOUCH IT? enjoyed a Rolling World Premiere at Company One Theatre (Boston), Rogue Machine Theatre (Los Angeles), and Cleveland Public Theatre (Cleveland). Her play PAY NO WORSHIP was a 2023 Finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and received its World Premiere at InterAct Theatre Company (Philadelphia) in April 2023. Her play NOT-FOR-PROFIT (OR THE EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION PLAY) will receive its World Premiere with Cleveland Public Theatre in Fall 2024. da silveira was a 2020-2021 Playwrights Realm Writing Fellow, a member of The Public Theater’s 2020-2023 Emerging Writers Group, a 2022-2023 Jerome Fellow with the Playwrights’ Center, a member of The Apollo Theater’s 2023 New Works Initiative Cohort, and a 2023 NYSCA commission recipient with The New Group (NYC). she is currently the 2024-2025 Tow Playwright-in-Resisence with WP Theatre (NYC), where her play MINOR·ITY will receive its World Premiere in Spring 2025, co-produced by commissioning theatre Colt Coeur (NYC). In TV land, da silveira was in the writers’ room for HBO’s Season 3 of INDUSTRY and in development with HBO. She holds a BFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and an MSc in Playwriting from the University of Edinburgh.