PALOMA SIERRA is a writer and director from Puerto Rico. 

She first gained recognition with her award-winning short I AM SOIL BREAKING OFF, which screened at 15+ international festivals, won the inaugural ¡Tú Cuentas! Cine Youth Fest Grand Prize, and earned her an appointment as the first Emerging Poet Laureate of Allegheny County. She has produced musicals and operas with Proyecto Olga Iglesias, Project Y Theatre Company, En Garde Arts, and White Snake Projects, garnering support from Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Theatre Now New York, and the Dramatists Guild of America.

Known for championing emerging and established talents alike, Paloma has worked with esteemed playwrights like Roy Williams to develop new works, leading to sold-out, world premieres at venues like Jermyn Street Theatre, Kennedy Center, and Edinburgh Fringe. An alumna of the Fulbright Program, Fornés Playwriting Workshop, and NMI Musical Theatre Workshop, Paloma trained in Carnegie Mellon and LAMDA, where she studied under acclaimed director Katie Mitchell, librettist Rob Handel, and dramaturg Megan Monaghan Rivas.

Paloma recently directed and developed BIOGRAPHY OF A CONSTELLATION (Orange Tree Theatre), THE DAISY CHAIN (Camden People’s Theatre, John Lyons Theatre, Tramshed Theatre), MEDUSA (Athens Conservatoire), and ADULTS (National Women's Theatre Festival). Other collaborations include THE LONELY LONDONERS (Jermyn Street Theatre), SPANGLISH SH!T (Baryshnikov Arts Center, Berkeley Repertory Theatre), THE REVOLUTION OF EVELYN SERRANO (New Hazlett Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe), and THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (Santa Cruz Shakespeare), among others.

Envisioning a future where multicultural narratives are a celebrated norm, Paloma also writes stories that overcome language barriers to reflect the diverse, cosmopolitan societies we live in. She is currently developing various projects, including an original, teen action-comedy feature about science and sports; a documentary on the Latin American tradition of improvised poetry; and a full-length opera about Puerto Rican baseball legends Clemente and Cepeda.

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