Fernanda Coppel

Born in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico, Fernanda Coppel moved to New York to pursue an MFA in Dramatic Writing at NYU on a full scholarship and received the University’s John Holden Playwriting Award upon graduation. Shortly after, Fernanda was accepted into the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellowship Program at The Juilliard School. Her play King Liz received its world premiere at Second Stage Theatre in an acclaimed, extended run over the summer of 2015, and her professional NY debut, Chimichangas and Zoloft, premiered at Atlantic Theater Company in 2012.

Fernanda has been awarded Pregones Theater's Asunción Playwrights Project prize, the 2012 HOLA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting and the 2012 Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting. She has participated in the Lark’s US/Mexico Playwright Exchange Program, the MCC Playwrights’ Coalition, and the Old Vic’s US/UK T.S. Eliot Exchange. Her work has been developed at Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York Theatre Workshop, INTAR Theatre, The Juilliard School, the Flea, Naked Angels, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and the Sundance Institute. TV staffing credits include HBO Max’s Generation, Queen of the South, Jason Katim’s Rise, How To Get Away With Murder and FX’s The Bridge, among others.