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 Theatre), 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 Theater / 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).
She is based in London and NYC, and is a proud DGA member.
News
Meet Paloma Sierra — Canvas Rebel
Joven puertorriqueña gana competencia de cine "¡Tú Cuentas!" — Orlando Sentinel
Putting the Pieces Together: Alumna Crosses Language Barriers to Bring Poetry to the Masses — Carnegie Mellon
Why We Write: Inside the Creative Process with the Poet Laureates for Allegheny County — Sampsonia Way
Martin Luther King Jr. Writing Competition Winners: Paloma Sierra — Pittsburgh Today Live
Reviews
her analytical relationship with language gives her work immediacy, her calibrated sense of irony gives it bite, and the pressure she puts on formal boundaries (...) a reckless irreverence
— Rob Handel, Playwright
everything that we had been missing in musical theatre: comedy, catchy music, and irreverence
— The Young-Howze Theater Journal
Profundity turns on how these orbit and charm. (...) Sierra’s team gets it just right.
— FringeReview UK
unexpected, funny, and entertaining
— Cora Frank, Director
wide-ranging in form and witty in tone
— Leyendo LatAm
Publications
Hoy disipo miedos, rumores, mitos, Antología X Certamen Sierra de Francia (2024)
Sola, me marchito, Antología Versos en el Aire XIII (2023)
For The Ones They Took Away, Azahares Literary Magazine (2023)
Seré un pelotero grandioso, Azahares Literary Magazine (2023)
I Am Soil Breaking Off, Azahares Literary Magazine (2023)
I Am Soil Breaking Off, The Bookends Review (2022)
I Am Soil Breaking Off, Moving Poems: Best Poetry Videos on the Web (2022)
Every Word I Say to You, Moving Poems: Best Poetry Videos on the Web (2022)
I Am Soil Breaking Off, Nature & Culture Poetry Film Anthology (2021)
Let This Be, Poetry Film Live (2021)
Cola’o: A Bilingual Trova, Bridge: The Bluffton University Literary Journal (2019)
Nostalgias (translation), Home Language Multilingual Exhibit Anthology (2019)
Where There’s Was Fire, Ashes Remain, Persephone’s Daughters (2018)