SILMA SIERRA BERRADA is an African American and Moroccan playwright, poet, and visual artist. She’s drawn to stories where the personal ruptures against the political—where memory, grief, and survival blur into ritual. Her work moves through ancestral haunting, spiritual collapse, and the ache of inheritance, often asking what softness can survive inside systems that demand endurance. She writes toward rhythm, texture, and emotional space—sculpting plays that are both tender and sharp, and dwell in the grey. Her work has been developed at McCarter Theatre (Paula Vogel Bake-Off) and recognized with the Crossroads Genesis Prize for Playwriting Excellence. She holds an A.B. in English from Princeton University and is currently pursuing her M.F.A. in Playwriting at Columbia University.