PALOMA SIERRA is a Puerto Rican writer and director who develops new plays, musicals, operas, and poetry for stage and film. 

Envisioning a future where multicultural narratives are a celebrated norm, Paloma explores how stories can overcome language barriers to reflect the diverse, cosmopolitan societies we live in.

Recent work includes: Roy Williams’ The Lonely Londoners (Jermyn Street), Lila Rose Kaplan’s Biography of a Constellation (Orange Tree), Johanny Navarro’s La batalla de los clásicos (Olga Iglesias Project), Samora La Perdida’s Spanglish Sh!t (Berkeley Repertory), Tlaloc Rivas’ The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano (New Hazlett / Edinburgh Fringe), Malique Guinn’s Bounty On Our Heads (Kennedy Center), Close But Not Too Close! (Project Y), Cola’o: A Bilingual Trova (Theatre Now New York), and Rosa: The Day of the Dead (White Snake Projects), among others.

Paloma holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon and an MA in Directing from LAMDA, both with high distinctions. She is also a Fulbright scholar (2022), a Fornés Playwriting Workshop fellow (2021), a ¡Tú Cuentas! Cine Youth Festival Winner (2021), and the first Emerging Poet Laureate of Allegheny County (2020).