francisca da silveira is a Cape Verde born, Boston raised playwright and tv writer. She was recently named a 2025 Women to Watch by the Broadway Women’s Fund. Her produced plays include: CAN I TOUCH IT?, Rolling World Premiere at Company One Theatre (Boston), Rogue Machine Theatre (Los Angeles), and Cleveland Public Theatre (Cleveland); PAY NO WORSHIP, a 2023 Finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and World Premiere at InterAct Theatre Company (Philadelphia) in April 2023; NOT-FOR-PROFIT (OR THE EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION PLAY), World Premiere at Cleveland Public Theatre in October 2024; and MINOR·ITY, World Premiere at WP Theatre, co-produced by Colt Coeur (NYC) in April 2025.

da silveira was a 2020-2021 Playwrights Realm Writing Fellow, a member of The Public Theater’s 2020-2023 Emerging Writers Group, a 2022-2023 Jerome Fellow with the Playwrights’ Center, a member of The Apollo Theater’s 2023 New Works Initiative Cohort, and a 2023 NYSCA commission recipient with The New Group (NYC). She has developed work through La Jolla Playhouse, the Banff Centre, MacDowell, the Venturous Theater Fund, and the National New Play Network. She is currently the 2024-2025 Tow Playwright-in-Residence with WP Theatre (NYC). In TV land, da silveira was in the writers’ room for HBO's Season 3 of INDUSTRY and in development with HBO. She holds a BFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and an MSc in Playwriting from the University of Edinburgh.