Chilean-born, Washington, DC-based performing artist, songwriter, director, and educator whose multidisciplinary career bridges Latin American and U.S. theatre, music, dance, and film. A four-time Helen Hayes Award winner and 2025 DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Individual Fellow, Fran has emerged as one of the distinctive Latinx artistic voices in the DC theatre community, bringing together powerhouse performance, original music, movement, and storytelling rooted in Latin American culture, identity, and lived experience.