Sierra Blanco

Sierra Blanco

Sierra Blanco is a winner of the 2020 National Endowment for the Arts / American Theatre Wing's Musical Songwriting Challenge. She previously won the Stephen Sondheim National Young Playwrights Competition, Writopia's Worldwide Plays Competition, NYC Write A Play! Competition, and was Guest Playwright to the O'Neill Young Playwrights Festival. Her poetry was published in the New York Times and...
Sierra Blanco is a winner of the 2020 National Endowment for the Arts / American Theatre Wing's Musical Songwriting Challenge. She previously won the Stephen Sondheim National Young Playwrights Competition, Writopia's Worldwide Plays Competition, NYC Write A Play! Competition, and was Guest Playwright to the O'Neill Young Playwrights Festival. Her poetry was published in the New York Times and her play "Bang!" in “A Decade of Shared Stories”. Her play "The Smallest Heroes" was published by YouthPLAYS in 2020. She received the Perelstein Discover Your Passion Scholarship for Musical-Theater Composition, and the 2020 National Music Publishers Scholarship. She had three Off-Broadway productions of her work, and maintains membership at the Dramatists Guild, AEA, and MENSA.

Plays

  • Study Buddy
    Ossie and Lola have been assigned a group project together for their Lit 101 class. Unfortunately, their differences are many and their outlooks on life get in the way of any work getting done. Can Ossie befriend Lola? Can Lola look beyond Ossie's missteps? And, of course, will they ever manage to start working on the project?
  • Getting Rid of Ferdinand (the mouse play)
    Bebe’s father has found out about her newly acquired rat Ferdinand and is making Bebe get rid of her “filthy pest” of a pet. Fearing for Ferdinand’s safety, and her mental sanity, she calls her childhood friend Livy into their old hangout spot in the woods to ask her to take care of her baby rat. But Livy isn’t as close to Bebe as she once was. She doesn’t know the importance of Ferdinand, and she certainly...
    Bebe’s father has found out about her newly acquired rat Ferdinand and is making Bebe get rid of her “filthy pest” of a pet. Fearing for Ferdinand’s safety, and her mental sanity, she calls her childhood friend Livy into their old hangout spot in the woods to ask her to take care of her baby rat. But Livy isn’t as close to Bebe as she once was. She doesn’t know the importance of Ferdinand, and she certainly doesn’t have time to take care of some random rodent just because her friend asks. As old arguments come to light, and immediate issues make themselves known, can the two friends reconcile enough to find a home for Ferdinand, a safe harbor for Bebe’s heart, and revive the strength of bffs?
  • The Crab Hat Monologue
    Lucas's coworkers have decided to summon a demon to solve the climate crisis. The materials for said summoning rituals are coming out of Lucas's paycheck. So for better or worse, Lucas is going to make sure that everyone puts on their dang crab hats to summon that demon!
  • The Modern American Dragonslayer On The 4th Of July
    July 4th, 2021, an alternate world in which there are dragons and dragon slayers.
    Two such dragon slayers await the rest of their team to celebrate their "victory over the dragons."
    Except the dragons aren't all gone, and one of the slayers is looking for a fight...
  • Cheek By Jowl
    Gabby catches her boyfriend cheating on her with her classmate. The math teacher, Mr. Peterson, tries to comfort her. Unfortunately, all is not what it seems, especially between teacher and student.
  • Avalon Farms (Academy)
    The world-renowned, prestigious summer music camp Avalon Farms Conservatory is - as seven talented young musicians discover - a far cry from where they end up.

    Avalon Farms Academy, a ramshackle, backwoods Vermont farm newly-minted, reinvented, and marketed as a summer camp by its aging owner Genevieve bears absolutely no resemblance to the famous established school of ultra-elite training:...
    The world-renowned, prestigious summer music camp Avalon Farms Conservatory is - as seven talented young musicians discover - a far cry from where they end up.

    Avalon Farms Academy, a ramshackle, backwoods Vermont farm newly-minted, reinvented, and marketed as a summer camp by its aging owner Genevieve bears absolutely no resemblance to the famous established school of ultra-elite training: Avalon Farms Conservatory. Apparently strapped for cash and company, Genevieve has successfully lured a group of aspiring, naïve musicians to her nascent program in a last-ditch effort to reinvigorate the facility, and herself in the process. Thrilled to receive acceptance, and failing to realize in their giddy euphoria that it’s not acceptance to the coveted Conservatory of the same moniker, the seven young artists are set on a path for an uneasy summer of surprises.

    Bussed in, miles from the nearest working wi-fi, the seven soloist prodigies must learn to work together to issue a cry for help to the world to release them from the eccentricities of Genevieve, her grandsons, and her mis-marketed farm. Along the way, they discover that Genevieve’s madness has a method and has transformed them in unique ways into more mature musicians and complex human beings, courtesy of Avalon Farms (Academy).
  • Apartment 3B
    Lover A and Lover B are set to get married in September. Then, tragedy strikes when B disappears into the night on the advice of the Psychic, while the Priest and Landlord contemplate what has come of young love.
  • Soybeef (a monologue)
    Veronica is a well-meaning woman who just wants the best for everyone. She is determined to remain optimistic and maintain her sense of normalcy during the pandemic, despite the many obstacles. She is on a quest for human companionship, one badly-timed apartment welcoming and mistaken delivery of vegan meat at a time.
  • Playtime
    A small-town babysitter is pitted against a big-town girl. They both must figure out how to win games that may be more serious than they first appear, and master new roles to survive in their fight to the finish.
  • Bang!
    A middle-school talent show is hijacked by a young competitor who wants to talk about freedom.
  • The Drill
    An elementary-school class is interrupted by a lockdown drill. Except, no one remembers an announcement saying there would be a drill today, one of the students is horribly claustrophobic, and who are those two men talking outside the art closet's door?
  • One Audience In Search Of An Ending
    An Ode to Pirandello's "Six Characters In Search Of An Author," this is a large ensemble play that deconstructs what exactly makes a good piece of theater, a good show, and a good life.
  • Near Enough To Jump The Divide
    A rooftop encounter between spirit and teen leads to a battle of wits on whether to jump off.
  • An Early Education
    A Parent-Teacher-Conference is called between one Mrs. Smith - the strict and college obsessed teacher- and one Mrs. Brent - the lax 'cool mom' - about the education of one athletically inclined Charlie Brent.
  • The Cat Monologue - Sam's Guide to Breaking Up With Style
    Taylor just broke up with Sam after a very (quite possibly purposefully) bad anniversary gift.
  • Minutes to Launch
    An AI named Becks and a spaceship captain named Seiga get ready to launch off into the stars. As they prepare to leave Earth forever, they discuss what they are leaving behind- the loneliness of being the last few people on the planet, the acquaintances that have preceded them to space, the mess made of the planet below them, the mess of emotions brought up by leaving the only planet they’ve known while heading...
    An AI named Becks and a spaceship captain named Seiga get ready to launch off into the stars. As they prepare to leave Earth forever, they discuss what they are leaving behind- the loneliness of being the last few people on the planet, the acquaintances that have preceded them to space, the mess made of the planet below them, the mess of emotions brought up by leaving the only planet they’ve known while heading towards the friends that have left them behind. Mostly, though, Seiga just wants to know how long it will be until the ship is ready to launch.
  • The Smallest Heroes
    What starts as a science experiment of Ellen’s strange “power” soon turns to less speculative topics. Topics like how Alice loves Ellen. Topics like how Alice hasn’t told her parents. Topics like Prom and fitting in and irrational fears, and most of all - Topics like how sometimes it’s the smallest heroes that save the world.