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Francesca Sanders

FRANCESCA SANDERS

  
Nationality:    USA
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Francesca Sanders is an award winning playwright who hails from Portland, Oregon. Since she began writing in 2000, shes been the recipient of The Oregon Literary Fellowship for Drama, Portland Civic Theatre Guild Fellowship for Theatrical Excellence, Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Playwriting Grant. She's been commissioned by- Portland Center Stage,Integrity Productions and Fuse Ensemble Theatre to name a few. Shes also been selected to participate in the Seven Devils Playwriting Conference (for I Become A Guitar) and The Kennedy Center Summer Playwriting Intensive. She was named a Finalist for the 2008 Oregon Book Award for Drama (I Become A Guitar.) Shes been a Finalist for the Rosenthal New Play Prize, Seattle Reps New Work Festival, Ojai Playwriting Festival, Orlando Shakespeare Festival, JAW, New Harmony Project, Play Labs and has had productions in such cities as New York, Los Angeles and Minneapolis as well as internationally. The juggling that Sanders does with reality and illusion is deft and skillful. A terrific piece of theatrical writing. A captivating new play.- NY Theatre.com A very talented playwright The Oregonian

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         Celeste and Starla Save Todd and Win Back the Day         Duck and Swan         Flea         History For An Icon         I Become A Guitar         If You Take One Elf Off the Shelf         In Amber Lies the Glass House         Lilac Samba         Mergers and Acquisitions         Rising From the Sugar Bowl         Slap the Bitch!         Urashima Taro

Celeste and Starla Save Todd and Win Back the Day

Synopsis:
Celeste and Starla, the starfish are off to solve a mystery with a capital M!

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1st Produced:
Mercury Theatre Lab in Madison, Wisconsin    06 Jun 2008

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Genre:
2 acts 120 min

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1

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Duck and Swan

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1st Produced:
Queer Shorts 7, Bartel Theatre, Madison, WI    31 May 2012

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Genre:
Lesbian one act

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Flea

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Notes:
Part of Beyond Conventions 2

1st Produced:
Hunger Artists Theater, Fullerton, California    14 Nov 2008

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History For An Icon

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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I Become A Guitar

Synopsis:
Madrigal and Kevin are adrift in their marriage when a magical boy from Zihuatanejo comes into their lives/dreams

Notes:
2008 Oregon Book Award Finalist

1st Produced:
Kitchen Theatre Company, Ithaca, New York    Jan 2009

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Genre:
one act 96 min

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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If You Take One Elf Off the Shelf

Synopsis:
What is real and what is not? Is Danika writing a novel or a play and could an elf help?

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1st Produced:
West End Theatre, NY    2005

Organisations:
Six Figures Theatre Co

1st Published:
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Genre:
Comedy one act 96 min

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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In Amber Lies the Glass House

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Lilac Samba

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Mergers and Acquisitions

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Rising From the Sugar Bowl

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Slap the Bitch!

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Based on "the Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare

1st Produced:
Arena Stage @ Theater Theater, Portland, Oregon    2010

Organisations:
Fuse Theater Ensemble

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Urashima Taro

Synopsis:
the plays address current socio-political issues from religious intolerance and prison torture to living in a security-obsessed world.

Notes:
Part of Questionable Content, A program of six new short plays: Absolutes by Craig Abernethy, Urashima Taro by Francesca Sanders, Hijab by Catherine Rush, there is No Dash by R. Harrington, Been Laden with Terrorette's Syndrome by Wayne K. Greenwell, And Building A Better Mousetrap by Scott McMorrow.

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Co-Op Theatre East

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Genre:
One Act

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