PALOMA SIERRA is a writer, director, and dramaturg who develops plays, musicals, operas, and poetry for stage and film. Envisioning a future where multicultural stories are a celebrated norm, she explores how words can surpass language limitations to reflect the diverse, cosmopolitan societies that we live in. She has worked with Jermyn Street Theatre, Theatre Now New York, Project Y Theatre, New Hazlett Theater, Conch Shell Productions, and City of Asylum; secured opportunities at venues like the Kiln Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe, and Kennedy Center; and earned recognition as a Fulbright scholar, Emerging Poet Laureate of Allegheny County, Fornés Playwriting Workshop member, and a Dramatists Guild of America and Writers Guild Foundation finalist. Her videopoem “I Am Soil Breaking Off” received international acclaim, winning the inaugural ¡Tú Cuentas! Cine Youth Festival Grand Prize. She holds a Directing MA from LAMDA and a Dramatic Writing MFA from Carnegie Mellon.
News
July 21, 2024 | Interview
Creatives on how they learned their craft
Canvas Rebel
November 12, 2021 | Award
Joven puertorriqueña gana competencia de cine "¡Tú Cuentas!"
La escritora y cineasta puertorriqueña entró con el pie derecho a las competencias de cine.
Orlando Sentinel
October 1, 2021 | Interview
CMU alumna crosses borders and language barriers to bring poetry to the masses
Carnegie Mellon
May 20, 2021 | Interview
Why We Write: Inside the Creative Process with the Poet Laureates for Allegheny County
How someone becomes a poet and what it means to sojourn through the creative process.
Sampsonia Way
February 3, 2021 | Article
27 Contemporary Puerto Rican Poets To Read Right Now
Here are 27 Puerto Rican poets you might want to read right now.
Leyendo LatAm
September 8, 2020 | Interview
Sierra discusses cultural identity and her love of poetry in this Across the Cut.
Carnegie Mellon
Reviews
September 10, 2024 | Review
A Young(ish) Perspective
September 9, 2024 | Review
FringeReview UK
March 2021 | Review
Close But Not Too Close Made Us Beg for More
The Young-Howze Theater Journal
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)
Contact
Writing / Directing
palomasierrah@gmail.com
