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Quiara Alegria Hudes

QUIARA ALEGRIA HUDES

  (1978 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC  represented by John Buzzetti

Quiara Alegria Hudes. Ms. Hudes' play elliot, a Soldiers Fugue was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Ms. Hudes' musical In the Heights opened Off-Broadway at 37 Arts and received the Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle awards for Outstanding Musical. In the Heights will transfer to Broadway in the 2007-08 season. Previously, she wrote the play Yemayas Belly, which won the 2004 Clauder Prize, the Paula Vogel award in Playwriting, and the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Latino Playwriting award. Her plays are published by Dramatists Play Service and Playscripts, Inc., and shorter works are anthologized in numerous collections. Ms. Hudes was born and raised in West Philadelphia, received a B.A. in Music Composition from Yale, and an M.F.A. in Playwriting from Brown. She is a resident playwright at New Dramatists, and a past recipient of the Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of Quiara Alegria Hudes's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         26 Miles         Adventures Of Barrio Grrrl!, The         Bario Abc's         Barrio Grrrl!         Daphne's Dive         Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue         Happiest Song Plays Last, The         Holy Broth         In the Heights         Lulu's Golden Shoes         Water By the Spoonful         Yemaya's Belly
26 Miles

Synopsis:
the custody battle left them estranged for eight years. the road trip destination is two thousand miles across the country. the mother's skin is brown, the teenage daughter's, white. So what if reality's nipping at their heels? This reunited pair runs fast and furious from the secrets in their lives, hunting valuable antiques, chasing arctic explorers, and getting lost in Wyoming's wilderness.

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1st Produced:
Alliance Theatre, Atlanta     2009

Organisations:
Roundhouse Theatre, Co-production with Two River Theater Com of Red Bank, NJ

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service Inc, NY, 2011   

Music:
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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Adventures Of Barrio Grrrl!, The

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1st Produced:
Summer Play Festival     2005

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Play/Drama

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Bario Abc's

Synopsis:
a jazzy riff on life in el barrio, from abandoned cars to muralists to oversized t-shirts.

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1st Produced:
Collaboration As Part Of The Sketchbook Festival     2007

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Genre:
Performance Poem, 10 Minutes

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Barrio Grrrl!

Synopsis:
punky 9-year-old ana is faced with this very big decision. On the one hand, as her alter-ego Barrio Grrrl with her invisible sidekick amazing Voice, she's pretty busy preserving justice in the barrio and protecting her neighborhood. On the other hand, in the world where ana lives with her abuelo (grandfather) and misses her mom who is far, far away in Iraq, reality is sneaking up on her. It's time for ana to decide what's most important: being a superhero or a girl who works little miracles in real life. Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony award nominee Quiara alegria Hudes (In the Heights) and Grammy-winning music director for PBS's new electric Company' Bill Sherman give audiences a funny and warmly truthful play that will make hearts sing. For age 9 and up.
- Lorraine Treanor, dctheatrescene

Notes:
Book And lyrics by Quiara Alegria Hudes . Music by Bill Sherman

1st Produced:
John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts - Family Theater     24 Oct 2009

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Genre:
Childrens musical

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Daphne's Dive

Synopsis:
Daphne's Dive is a cheap corner bar in North Philly where Daphne and her eclectic group of friends and family meet, talk, bond and drink. As Daphne's adopted daughter, very different from her quiet and pragmatic mother, grows up, this unconventional family is forced to confront ugly secrets and take a hard look at their lives.

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1st Produced:
Signature Theatre, NY, USA >>>     26 Apr 2016

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Play/Drama

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Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue

Synopsis:
as elliot Ruiz grapples with his recent return from active duty in Iraq, the military experiences of his Father and grandFather unfold, revealing startling similarities and uniting the Ruiz men across time. Driven by their passions and memories, with consciences shaped by guilt and hope, these three men mine the black holes of war. as elliot's tale moves back in time, the stories of his father, mother, and grandFather move forward until past and present inevitably collide, wringing love and beauty from devastation.

Notes:
Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2007

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Page 73 Productions

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service Inc, NY, 2007   

Music:
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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Happiest Song Plays Last, The

Synopsis:
On a movie set in Jordan, an Iraq War veteran relives his trauma while filming a war-themed blockbuster. In a humble kitchen in North Philadelphia, a woman feeds her hungry neighbors and falls in love with a local songsmith. One cousin finds herself in the middle of community tragedy as the other hitchhikes across the border on the eve of the egyptian Revolution. a tale of two young adults who cross the globe in search of redemption, humility, and their place in the world, set to beautiful folkloric Puerto Rican songs.

Notes:
part of the elliot Trilogy

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY (2015)   

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Holy Broth

Synopsis:
ashley, a Puerto Rican girl from Philly, is getting a D in Spanish, and at home everything's lost in translation -- her mother's attention is always elsewhere, and her grandma just sits in the dark and watches Spanish soap operas. With the help of an old soup recipe and some family history, can ashley create a new language with her grandma?

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1st Produced:
Perishable Theatre (Providence, Ri, United States)     2003

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   

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Genre:
20-30 min Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  -

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In the Heights

In the Heights
musical about three days in the life of Washington Heights, a vibrant and tight-knit neighborhood at the top of Manhattan. From the vantage point of Usnavi's corner bodega, we experience the joys, heartbreaks and bonds of a Latino community struggling to redefine home.
nytheatre.com

Notes:
music And lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda; book by Quiara Alegria Hudes. Finalist: 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

1st Produced:
37 Arts, NY     2007

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Rodgers and Hammerstein   

Music:
Original cast recording: Ghostlight Records 2009

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Genre:
Musical

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Lulu's Golden Shoes

Synopsis:
the terrifying and titillating sexual awakening story of one young Latina, the battle of good and evil that rages in her heart, and the trashy, resplendent women whose legacies she will change forever. Please note: this play has strong adult content and is not to be confused with the children's musical Barrio Grrrl!

Notes:
(Previously titled the Adventures of Barrio Grrrl! Installment 12: Lulu's Golden Shoes)

1st Produced:
Miracle Theatre    

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Genre:
a Raunchy Comic Book Tragedy, 120 Minutes with intermission

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Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Water By the Spoonful

Water By the Spoonful
Years after his honorable discharge, a Puerto Rican veteran is surrounded by the North Philadelphia demons he tried to escape in the service. Meanwhile, in a chat room, a group of recovering addicts forge the safe haven they don't have in their physical communities. Birth families splinter and online families collide in Philly, Puerto Rico, Japan, and California, all set to Coltrane's free jazz.

Notes:
recipient of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Water by the Spoonful is An original work commissioned by Hartford Stage As part of Quiara's 2008-2009 Aetna New Voices Fellowship.

1st Produced:
Hartford Stage Co. In Connecticut     28 Oct 2011

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Theatre Communications Group 2012;
Dramatists Play Service Inc   

Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Yemaya's Belly

Synopsis:
a Cuban boy is born into a humble farming family, but after his first taste of cold Coca-Cola, he dreams of a world beyond his family's meager acre. Naively yearning to meet the President of America, the play follows his epic journey into manhood and materialism, from farm, to city, to a raft sailing to the New World

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1st Produced:
Portland Stage Company     2005

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, 2007   

Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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