Frances Timberlake is a playwright and director from Cincinnati, Ohio. Frances has been named a National YoungArts winner, a U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts, published by Samuel French, and earned recognition through the National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and the Overture Awards. She has a BFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Frances is currently working as the writer’s assistant to Stephen Schwartz and Lindsey Ferrentino on a new musical, The Queen of Versailles (Broadway 2025). She is also working as the writer’s assistant for an upcoming animated movie at Warner Bros.