Sierra Blanco
Latest News on Sierra Blanco:
Awardees Revealed For the 2024 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Awards (May 6, 2024)
Open Gate International Film Festival To Return For Its 2nd Year; Lineup Unveiled (Nov 7, 2022)
The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center to Host the 17th Annual Young Playwrights Festival (May 10, 2022)
Awardees Revealed For the 2024 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Awards (May 6, 2024)
Open Gate International Film Festival To Return For Its 2nd Year; Lineup Unveiled (Nov 7, 2022)
The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center to Host the 17th Annual Young Playwrights Festival (May 10, 2022)
Sierra Blanco BIO
SIERRA BLANCO (AEA) made her Off-Broadway debut with Theatre de la Ville in Six Characters in Search of an Author at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) as part of the Next Wave Festival. She has performed comedy skits with Asif Mandvi and Bill Nye for Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show, and with Stephen Colbert -opening The Late Show. She has enjoyed performing in several student films, as well as in the lead (Charlotte) for the independent film Biff and Me directed by Nicola Rose. She is represented by Bonnie Shumofsky Bloom of Stewart Talent. Sierra is an award winning playwright and composer, having won Stephen Sondheim's National Young Playwright's Competition, David Letterman's Worldwide Plays Competition, and the NYC Write-A-Play! Competition. She was twice an invited guest playwright at the Eugene O'Neill Young Playwright's Conference at the National Theater Institute. Sierra was a finalist with the Andrew Lloyd Webber Training Initiative Scholarship, and a Finalist with the NEA/American Theatre Wing Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge as well as a recipient for the Michael Perelstein Discover Your Passion Scholarship for Playwriting and Musical Theater Composition. Her poetry has been published in the New York Times Metropolitan Diary, and her play Bang! published in a Decade of Shared Stories. Sierra, a member of the Dramatists Guild, Actors Equity Association and MENSA is a BMI Affiliate Artist for songwriting., Sierra attended a NYC public school for gifted learners.
Sierra Blanco News
Awardees Revealed For the 2024 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Awards
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts hosted more than 125 outstanding theater students from colleges and universities across the nation as part of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF).
Open Gate International Film Festival To Return For Its 2nd Year; Lineup Unveiled
Open Gate International Film Festival is set to return for its 2nd year, November 11-13th, at the West Newton Cinema in West Newton, Massachusetts. The lineup includes 48 independent films and 27 screenplays from over 20 countries around the globe.
The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center to Host the 17th Annual Young Playwrights Festival
The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center has announced the five featured playwrights and 14 honorable mention guest playwrights who will be taking part in the upcoming 17th Annual Young Playwrights Festival, to be held from May 13-15, 2022 on the organization’s Waterford campus.
National Endowment for the Arts and The Wing Announce 2020 Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge Winners
The National Endowment for the Arts with the American Theatre Wing announced today the winners of the 2020 Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge.
Teens Lead The Way In FINDING MY SPOTLIGHT
Aspiring young actors gather at a deserted NYC theater during the decade's worst blizzard for their chance to audition for a reportedly Broadway-bound musical. Stranded and awaiting the delayed Director, their fears, fantasies and futures are revealed, turning the dog-eat-dog young competitors into an unlikely band of brothers and sisters, aka the theater community.
Neil Patrick Harris Set for Tonight's Fundraiser for Young Playwrights Inc.
After the dust settled from a January 2 deadline and the paper-cuts healed from over six hundred plays received from writers aged 18 or younger, eight playwrights have been named winners of the 2014 Young Playwrights Inc. National Playwriting Competition.
Neil Patrick Harris Set for 8/14 Fundraiser for Young Playwrights Inc.; Competition Winners Announced!
After the dust settled from a January 2 deadline and the paper-cuts healed from over six hundred plays received from writers aged 18 or younger, eight playwrights have been named winners of the 2014 Young Playwrights Inc. National Playwriting Competition.
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