BIO

Quiara Alegría Hudes was nominated for a Tony Award for her book for In the Heights (2008 Tony Award for Best Musical, 2009 Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize). Other works include 26 Miles; Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue (2007 Pulitzer Prize Finalist); Yemaya’s Belly (Clauder Prize); and the new children’s musical Barrio Grrrl!. Originally trained as a composer, Hudes graduated from public school in Philadelphia and went on to receive a B.A. in music composition from Yale and an M.F.A in playwriting from Brown, where she studied with Paula Vogel. She has found many homes for her writing including New Dramatists, where she is a resident writer; Page 73; Alliance Theatre; Miracle Theatre; Hartford Stage, where she is the Aetna New Voices Fellow; the Goodman Theatre, where she is the Joyce Fellow; and Philadelphia Young Playwrights, which produced her first play in the 10th grade and where she now serves as a mentor and board member. Hudes is currently writing the second and third plays in the Elliot trilogy and the screenplay of In the Heights for Universal Pictures. She lives in New York with her husband and daughter.

AWARDS

2009 Finalist, The Pulitzer Prize for Drama (In the Heights)
2009 Joyce Award
2008 Nominee, Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical
2008 Aetna New Voices Fellow, Hartford Stage
2008 Borimix Award
2007 Finalist, The Pulitzer Prize for Drama (Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue)
2007 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical
2007 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical
2007 HOLA Award for Oustanding Achievement in Playwriting
2007 Top 100 Latinos of the Year, Latina Magazine
2007 Named Best Musical, New York Magazine
2007 Broadway.Com Audience Award for Favorite Musical
2006 The Page 73 Playwriting Fellow
2006 Rockefeller MAP Fund Grant
2004 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, The Kennedy Center ACTF
2004 Latino Playwriting Award, The Kennedy Center ACTF
2004 The Clauder Prize
1993 First Prize, Philadelphia Young Playwrights Festival