Sierra Blanco

Sierra Blanco won Stephen Sondheim's National Young Playwrights Competition, Writopia's Worldwide Plays Competition, and the NYC Write A Play! Competition and was twice an invited Guest Playwright to the Eugene O'Neill's Young Playwrights Festival at the National Theater Institute. She was awarded the Fine Arts Award in Playwriting from Interlochen and received Michael Perelstein's Discover Your Passion Scholarship for Playwriting and Musical Theater Composition. Sierra was a Finalist for both the Blank Theater Competition and Andrew Lloyd Weber's Training Scholarship. Sierra's poetry was published in The New York Times, and her play Bang! was published in A Decade of Shared Stories. Sierra won Scholastic Art and Writing Awards in multiple years for playwriting, poetry, and fiction. She has had three professionally staged Off-Broadway productions of her work and three staged readings. Sierra also writes and composes musicals. She is a winner of the National Endowment for the Arts/American Theatre Wing 2020 Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, AEA, MENSA, and a BMI Artist for songwriting.