Photo Credit: Corinne Louie
Bio
Francesca Fernandez is an actor, educator, and theater worker from the San Francisco Bay Area based in New York City. She has shared her work in NYC: Roundabout Theatre Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre (EST), ART-NY with Pipeline Theatre Co., 59E59, Daryl Roth Theater, Ant Fest at ARS NOVA, Center at Park West and Regionally: Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Dorset Theatre Festival, KC Rep, California Shakespeare Theatre, Southern Rep, Mu Theater, Two Rivers Theater, Magic Theater, Cleveland Playhouse, Milwaukee Rep. In NYC, she has workshopped new work with New York Theatre Workshop, Ping Chong & Company, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Ars Nova, New Dramatists, National Showcase of New Plays (NNPN), EST, The Brick, LPAC Rough Draft Festival, 2g Productions, Playwrights Realm, The Lark, and the National Black Theater of Harlem. Some memorable roles include Shen Te/Shui Ta in “Good Person of Szechwan” directed by Eric Ting at CalShakes, the world premiere of “Bald Sisters” by Vichet Chum directed by Jesca Prudencio at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and understudying Tony Award Nominated Gabby Beans in the world premiere of “Jonah” by Rachel Bonds directed by Danya Taymor at Roundabout Theater Company.
TV/Film credits include “Law & Order: SVU,” “Blue Bloods,” “Arcadia,” “The Hardest Part,” “Mooshrooms,” and “The Locker Room Series,” and PBS’ Great Performances recording of the play “Gloria: A Life.” While getting her MFA in acting at Yale School of Drama, she was a co-Artistic Director of Yale Cabaret in its 50th season, an original member of the Asian and Asian American Coalition (aka Asian Potluck) and Yale School of Drama’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Working Group.
While in New Orleans she was part of Cripple Creek Theater Company and an ensemble member of Goat in the Road Productions. In 2015, she was featured in American Theater Magazine as a “Theater Worker You Should Know.” She is a co-Founder of Encompass Collective NYC, and is a recipient of the inaugural Stonehenge NYC Still Standing Artist Residency. She is a lecturer in the College of Performing Arts at the New School, the Theatre and Performance Studies at Yale University, and scene study faculty at ACT’s Summer Training Congress. She is currently the Community Engagement & Social Media Manager at Ensemble Studio Theatre NYC, and a consultant at Evolution Management Consultants.
Photo Credit Ian McLaren.
RESUME
Film/TV
Law & Order: SVU
Blue Bloods
Arcadia
The Hardest Part
Mooshrooms
Locker Room Series
Guest Star
Guest Star
Lead
Lead
Lead
Supporting
NBC
CBS
Web
Short Film
Web
Web
dir. Batán Silva
Ralph Hemecker
Ean Castellanos
Philip Zain Dias
Nolan DeGraff
Kat Belinfante
NYC Theater
House of Telescopes
Jonah
Smart
…what the end will be
Gloria: A Life
Love, Medea
Kenny’s Tavern
Export Quality
Sorry/Not Sorry
SYZYGY
Not So Long
The Other Place
Galactic Orphans
Lila
Ana (u/s)
Gabby
Chloe (u/s)
Ensemble
Medea
Laura
Jesca
Ensemble
Xenia
Daughter
The Woman
Cory
Pipeline Theatre Co.
Roundabout Theatre
Ensemble Studio - EST
Roundabout Theatre
Daryl Roth Theatre
Center at Park West
59E59
Loose Change
ANT Fest
Two Rivers
Intl. Trading Co.
Pay Per View
Egg & Spoon
dir. Lyam B. Gabel
Danya Taymor
Matt Dickson
Margot Bordelon
Diane Paulus
Michael Alvarez
Jess Chayes
Jesca Prudencio
Nana Dakin
Dominique Rider
Eugene Ma
Tyne Rafaeli
Graham Schmidt
Regional
Ms Holmes & Sherlock Apt 2B
Bald Sisters
Othello
Twelfth Night
King Lear
10 Minutes in 2020
Good Person of Szechwan
Oresteia
Liébling
Nanay
Lily’s Revenge
Twelfth Night
Mister Paradise
Sheddin’
Electra
Cradle Will Rock
Irene/Women
Sophea
Emilia
Viola
Cordelia
CC
Shen Te
Electra
Leena
Angela
Bride Love
Olivia
Girl
E’boa
Chrysothemis
Ella Hammer
Dorset Theatre Fest
Steppenwolf
Play On Podcasts
Kansas City Rep
Play On Podcasts
Theater Mu, MNPS
CalShakes
CalShakes
Cleveland Playhouse
Magic Theater, SF
Southern Rep, NOLA
Theater Mu
Provincetown Players
Horizon Theater, ATL
Stanford Summer Fest
Cripple Creek
Aneesha Kudtarkar
Jesca Prudencio
Victor Malana Maog
Nelson T. Eusebio III
Eric Ting
Mei Ann Teo
Eric Ting
Eric Ting
Jesca Prudencio
Lisa Marie Rollins
Aimee Hayes
Randy Reyes
David Kaplan
Sheddin’
Rush Rehm
Andrew Vaught
Yale School of Drama (David Geffen)
Wait… Now, What?!
Blood Wedding
Our Lady of 121st Street
The Hour of Great Mercy
Salt, Pepper Ketchup
Wrong River
Lear
As You Like It
Othello
Much Ado About Nothing
Death of Yazgherd
Thunder Above Deeps Below
Pantalona
Mother-In-Law
Inez
Irma
Linda Wu
Lisa
Goneril
Rosalind
Emilia
Hero/Dogberry
Woman
Teresa
Chris Bayes
Kevin Hourigan
Pironne Yousefzadeh
Kevin Hourigan
Al Heartley
Shadi Ghaheri
Shadi Ghaheri
Ensemble devised
Rory Pelsue
Jecamiah Ybanez
Shadi Ghaheri
Sebastian Arboleda
“Francesca Fernandez makes an ingenue’s openness not static or stock but dramatic, juicy with possibility...she is superb.”
Contact Francesca
IMDB
Representation
Brantley Brown, Authentic (manager)
Dawn Gray, Gray Talent Group (theatrical agent)
Jerry Kallarakkal, A3 (commercial)
Abbie Waters, A3 (voiceover)
Training
Yale School of Drama, MFA Acting
Santa Clara University, Theater Arts