onstage

It’s a season of looking back! Two of Hudes’s influential stage works return to the New York stage.

Oct 28 - Nov 15
In the Heights returns after nearly twenty years in a workshop presentation at New York City Center

Dec 7
A 20th anniversary benefit reading of Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue at Signature Theatre. Info here, original Times review here

Other fun stuff…

Nov 2 NYC
Hudes performs at The Public Theater alongside Ethan Hawke in a reading of Thornton Wilder’s The Long Christmas Dinner. Info here

Nov 13 NYC
Hudes joins a panel for Madison Square Park Conservancy’s Public Art Symposium, exploring the work of Roberto Lugo, daytime event 9:00am-12:00pm, free but registration required

bio

Quiara Alegría Hudes is the author of eight plays, three musicals, two films, a memoir, and a novel. Her influential stage works include Water By the Spoonful which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and has become a staple of college classrooms, and the beloved Broadway hit In the Heights which received the Tony Award for Best Musical. Hudes’s memoir, My Broken Language, was One Book, One Philadelphia’s citywide read in her beloved hometown. Her novel The White Hot was shortlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Hudes has contributed essays to the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Cut, and The Nation. You can watch her films Vivo and In the Heights on airplanes and streaming platforms. A daughter of the Puerto Rican diaspora, Hudes now lives in New York.

INTERVIEWS

THE RUMPUS * BOOKPAGE * NPR * PLAYBILL * PEN AMERICA * HIP LATINA * LATINA TO LATINA PODCAST * THE NEW YORKER * GUERNICA MAGAZINE * BROADWAY.COM * THE BROOKLYN RAIL * THE NEW YORK TIMES * THE LA TIMES * A FRAME * DALLAS MORNING NEWS * 50 PLAYWRIGHTS PROJECT * THE INTERVAL * WESLEYAN MAGAZINE

HONORS

Pulitzer Prize in Drama * One Book, One Philadelphia * Tony Award for Best Musical * Carol Shields Prize for Fiction shortlist * PEN/Faulkner Prize for Fiction shortlist * Best Book of 2025: NPR, Ms. Magazine, Kirkus * Pulitzer Finalist in Drama (twice) * Tony Nomination for Best Book of a Musical * Andrew Carnegie Medal Longlist * The Athenaeum of Philadelphia Literary Prize * Joyce Fellowship * USA Artists Fellowship * Ceiba Award * Pennsylvania Governor’s Award * HOLA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting * Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical * Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Musical * Puerto Rican Day Parade Grand Marshall (NYC & Philly) * Best Musical, New York Magazine * Best of Book of 2021: Bookpage, New York Public Library, NPR, National Book Review & more * Best Theater of 2007, New York Times * Aetna New Voices Fellowship * Clauder Prize