Quiara Alegrķa Hudes
wrote the book for In the Heights, recipient of the 2008 Tony Award
for Best Musical. Her recent play, Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue, was a
finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her new play, 26 Miles, will
premier at The Alliance Theatre next season. Quiara's honors include
the Lucille Lortel Award Award for Outstanding Musical, the HOLA Award for
Achievement in Playwriting, and the Clauder Prize for her first play, Yemaya's
Belly. She has degrees from Yale and Brown Universities, is a
resident writer at New Dramatists, and a previous Page 73 Playwriting
Fellow. She was born and raised in West Philadelphia, where she began
composing music and writing.
