Francesca Gamba

Francesca Gamba is an actress, singer, filmmaker, and the founder of Intenso Films. She graduated from LaGuardia Arts School in New York (The Fame School) and also earned her Bachelor's in Arts Summa Cum Laude from Northwestern University, studying Film, Theatre, and Entrepreneurship with a focus on acting and directing for the screen. She is best known for writing, directing, and starring in Manic Memoirs (Big Apple Film Festival) and Sisters (Senior Directing Grant), and for writing and directing Mi Hija, starring Gemmy Quelliz (Miss Universe Latina Finalist) and Kaliani Chanelle (LaGuardia Drama). Additionally, as a Pritzker Pucker Fellow, she created two short films centered on mental health. As a theatre actress, she has starred alongside Mercedes Ruehl (Academy Award, Tony, and Golden Globe winner) in a reading of the new musical Uphill Walkers and has performed in cabarets around NYC. She was also in Dance Nation as Connie as the only undergraduate chosen to perform alongside Northwestern's MFA Theatre actors and in the Waa-Mu Show, a Northwestern tradition with alumni such as Brian d'Arcy James and Heather Headley.