UPCOMING

Sun Sept 27, Brooklyn
Brooklyn Book Festival, check here for details

Oct 28 - Nov 8, New York
In the Heights returns to New York City at New York City Center for two weeks only!

bio

For over two decades, Quiara Alegría Hudes’s writing has been produced and read around the world. Her stage plays include the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Water by the Spoonful, the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights, and the Pulitzer finalist Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue. Quiara’s 2025 fiction debut, The White Hot, was shortlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulker Award for Fiction. Her 2021 memoir, My Broken Language, was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal and was One Book, One Philadelphia’s citywide read. Hudes also wrote the animated feature Vivo and has contributed essays for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Cut, The Nation, and American Theater Magazine. With her cousin Sean, she co-founded a prison writing program: Emancipated Stories. Musical collaborations include Lin-Manuel Miranda, The Cleveland Orchestra, Erin McKeown, Michel Camilo, Elio Villafranca, and Alex Lacamoire. A daughter of the Puerto Rican diaspora, Quiara was born and raised in West Philly and 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