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.