Francine Volpe teaches screenwriting, playwriting, and television writing at NYU, Sarah Lawrence College, and The New Group, and is a member of New Dramatists. She received her B.F.A from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and was later the recipient of a two-year Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwriting Fellowship at The Juilliard School where she studied with Marsha Norman and Christopher Durang. In addition, Francine received a NYFA grant for her low-income playwriting workshop and twice received grants from the Lecomte du Nouy Foundation for playwriting. She was the winner of the Agnes Ranjo Capps scholarship at the Missoula Playwrights Colony.
Her most recent play, The Good Mother was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She received the 2016 McKnight National Playwright Residency and Commission and in 2013 was the inaugural winner of the Lanford Wilson Prize in Playwriting. Other plays include The Given (also a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist) and Late Fragment, both directed by Michael Imperioli. Francine’s screenplays include Queenie and I’ll Be Your Mirror.
