Franco Giacomarra

Franco Giacomarra is a New York City-based writer, composer, and performer who makes original works for the stage, page and screen.

His projects include Mom I Met a Chica (The New Group) , PLANET W: A Science-Fiction Musical ( Finalist: The National Music Theater Conference at the O’Neill, Ars Nova ANT FEST 2024), and the solo show “The Final Escape: A Houdini Story” at the Gene Frankel Theater Festival (Best Actor, Best Play).


Franco is a published comic book author (Zenescope Entertainment), digital journalist, and the bandleader and co-founder of The Luna Negra Collective, a salsa band comprised of Latine multi-hyphenate artists who focus on creating original music works, as well as reinterpreting existing works through a vibrant and heartfelt Latine’ lens.


Franco is most often drawn to writing about identity, and characters that are in “two worlds,” or feel ill-at-ease in different aspects of their being—whether it’s shapeshifting aliens acclimating to Earth, or a bicultural kid trying to roll his R’s just so.


Franco is proudly first generation Sicilian and Puerto Rican. B.A. Fordham University.