ABOUT FRANCESCA

My work feels like a good dinner party, a place where people gather together, to connect to the deepest parts of themselves, to be wowed, to be hosted, to celebrate, and to heal.

I’m a multidisciplinary director who uses story to craft “thin place,” a space where the ordinary and the extraordinary meet. My work lives at that intersection: human and grounded, yet imaginative enough to coax audiences toward the impossible. As a biracial Mexican-American artist, I’m intimately familiar with inhabiting multiple worlds at once, and that perspective fuels my commitment to stories from the margins, collaborative processes rooted in honor and play, and theater that invites everyone into deeper connection with themselves and one another. I love building immersive, multi-sensory experiences, blurring artistic boundaries, and leading creative rooms where every voice belongs. At the core of everything I make is curiosity, community, and a belief that when many perspectives share one vision, theater becomes ‘thin’ enough for something transcendent to break through.