New Dramatists: Quiara Alegria Hudes

	Quiara Alegría Hudes c/o Bruce Ostler Bret Adams Ltd Artists' Agency 448 West 44th Street New York, NY 10036 (212) 765-5630 (212) 265-2212 fax Agent Email: BOstler.BAL@verizon.net Email: newdramatists@newdramatists.org

Quiara Alegría Hudes’s plays include ELLIOT, A SOLDIER’S FUGUE (Pulitzer Finalist, 2007); the book of the Broadway-bound IN THE HEIGHTS (Lucille Lortel Award, Outer Critics Circle Award); YEMAYA’S BELLY (The Clauder Prize); and THE ADVENTURES OF BARRIO GRRRL! Her work has been performed Off-Broadway at 37 Arts, off-Off Broadway at The Culture Project, and around the country at The Alliance Theatre, Portland Stage Company, Signature Theatre, Miracle Theatre and others. Internationally, her plays have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian. Hudes received her B.A. in music composition from Yale, her M.F.A. in playwriting from Brown, and is originally from West Philadelphia. She is the recipient of the Page 73 Fellowship, the Kennedy Center ACTF Latina Playwriting Award, and the Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting, and is a resident playwright at New Dramatists.

ELLIOT (A SOLDIER'S FUGUE) YEMAYA'S BELLY THE ADVENTURES OF BARRIO GRRRL! Installment 12: Lulu's Golden Shoes
_{quiara alegria hudes} ELLIOT (A SOLDIER'S FUGUE) One-act drama/90 minutes 3M, 1W Unit set A Puerto Rican family transplants itself in New York, then Philadelphia. Three generations from three locations have fought in three major wars: Korea, then Vietnam, then Iraq. The grandfather, father and son attempt to narrate each other’s stories and, in the process, make sense of their own. The intertwined stories unfold onstage like the braided and broken themes of a Bach fugue. New York premiere, Page 73 Productions (2005); Alliance Theatre Company (2006); Steppenwolf Garage/Teatro Vista/Rivendell Ensemble (2006); The New Theatre (2006); Miracle Theatre (2005); recipient of the Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship (2004-05). "Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue is that rare and rewarding thing: a theater work that succeeds on every level, while creating something new." —The New York Times
_{quiara alegria hudes} YEMAYA'S BELLY Drama/95 minutes 3M, 2W Flexible set A fantastical tale about one boy’s immigration to the United States, Yemaya’s Belly starts on the poor mountain farm of a Caribbean island and ends on the tempestuous ocean sailing towards the new world. The hero is guided along his coming-of-age journey by a bottle of cold coke, a street-wise girl, and Yemayá, Yoruba deity of the oceans. But blocking his path are the ghosts of his hometown and the haunted depths of the middle passage. The story is lifted to epic heights through its exploration of ritual and Afro-Caribbean spirituality. World premiere, Portland Stage Company (2005); Signature Theatre (2005); People’s Light & Theatre Company (2006); Detroit Repertory Theatre (2006); Miracle Theatre (2004); South Coast Repertory workshop (2004); recipient of the Clauder Prize, The Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting, and the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Latina Playwriting Award.
_{quiara alegria hudes} THE ADVENTURES OF BARRIO GRRRL! Installment 12: Lulu’s Golden Shoes Dark comedy/95 minutes 4W, 2M Flexible set Welcome back to the long awaited next chapter of… The Adventures of Barrio Grrrl! Actually, in real life Ana is the ultimate underdog and so are all the women she loves. So this chubby girl from the barrio decides to become a superhero and save their beautiful hearts from complete obliteration. What ensues is Barrio Grrrl’s comic-book vision of how great the world can really be. It’s a fierce play that takes the hardest edges of North Philly’s ghettos and turns them into gold. Miracle Theatre (2004); Summer Play Festival (2005); South Coast Repertory workshop (2004). “An exuberant, richly imaginative theatricality that's entrancing.”—The Oregonian “Sensual magic.”—Willamette Week


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