“If you want evidence that American playwriting is in very good hands, you need look no further.”  Bloomberg News Teresa Avia Lim, Liza Colon-Zayas, and Ray Anthony Thomas

“Fluid, authentic, deeply affecting. A work that is as dramatically gripping as it is politically resonant. The characters in Water by the Spoonful earn our empathy not because of their spotless goodness but because of their muddling imp

“Hudes is a writer of enormous empathic gifts, her dialogue is lean and funny, and she knows these people in their bones.”  Time Out New York Liza Colon-Zayas, Sue Jean Kim, and Frankie Faison

“Beautifully resounding drama. The playwright splashes together droplets of life’s bleak realities, harsh revelations, fragile successes and modest triumphs. A rich, brilliant montage of American urban life that is as dazzling to watch as it is

WATER BY THE SPOONFUL

Recipient of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. A lonely adoptee in Japan. An IRS fuddy duddy. A haiku-spouting recluse. And two blood cousins from North Philly’s barrio. This motley crew gathers in an online chatroom to help each other stay sober one day at a time, revealing how the most unlikely companions can often best understand our secret selves. Premiered at Hartford Stage Company directed by Davis McCallum, moved to Second Stage in New York. Watch Zabryna Guevara perform an excerpt. See the trailer from Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

"Hudes corrals harsh voices and brutal stories into a magnificent whole that is beautiful not because it is lovely but because it is brokenheartedly tender and true." Charles McNulty, LA Times