Quiara Alegría Hudes

Quiara Alegría Hudes is the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Water By the Spoonful; author of a memoir, My Broken Language; and screenwriter of the animated film Vivo. Together with Lin-Manuel Miranda, she wrote the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical In the Heights and the screenplay for its feature film adaptation. Her essays have appeared in The Nation, The Cut, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and American Theater Magazine. Hudes and her cousin Sean cofounded Emancipated Stories, helping people behind bars share one page of their life story with the world. She has keynoted alongside Gabriela Sanchez on the joys and madness of a Philly Rican sisterhood in theater.

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