Quiara Alegría Hudes is a playwright from West Philadelphia. Born to a Jewish father and raised by her Puerto Rican mother and stepfather, she identifies strongly with her Puerto Rican heritage. Hudes received her BA in Music Composition from Yale University, and her background in music has provided influence on her playwriting. She received her MFA in Playwriting from Brown University. Hudes is best known for writing the book of the Tony award-winning musical In the Heights and her Pulitzer Prize winning play Water by the Spoonful, part of her play series called the "Elliot Trilogy". She is currently a professor of playwriting at Wesleyan University and playwright in residence at Signature Theatre.
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Iraq War veteran, Elliot Ortiz is haunted by a ghost from the war and is left to make funeral arrangements for his adoptive mother Ginny, alongside his cousin Yaz. Elliot’s biological mother, Odessa aka “Haikumom” leads an online chatroom for recovering crack addicts around the world, including a new addition “Fountainhead”, a businessman who struggles to accept his addiction and hide it from his family. After Elliot confronts Odessa about not help
Judy Woodruff: Quiara Alegria Hudes is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who&#;s also known for her collaboration with Lin-Manuel Miranda on the Tony Award-winning musical &#;In the Heights,&#; just released in a film version.
Now Hudes has written a deeply personal memoir called &#;My Broken Language&#; about navigating life as the daughter of a Puerto Rican mother and Jewish father in West Philadelphia.
For us, she has this Brief But Spectacular take on unearthing family stories.
It&#;s part of our arts and culture series, Canvas.
Quiara Algeria Hudes: I have said that the story of my family is the American story.
There are so many Americas, and, in the United States, there are so many Americas. And I got to read about some of them growing up. Some of those books were assigned to me in high school. But my job as I became a young woman and a young artist was to learn about more of this nation, including my own history, which I had never read, was never assigned to me.
When I decided to really start writing, I wanted to interview my elders and my relatives. One of the first plays I wrote, I remember, it was about Puerto Rican men serving in the United States military
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As a child, Quiara Alegría Hudes, currently the Shapiro Distinguished Professor of Writing and Theater, never suspected that she would grow up to write professionally but it was something she did naturally from an early age.
“I always wrote,” she says. “It was just one of the ways I grew up playing—kids play around by picking up stories; it’s one of our natural instincts. My dad would teach me how to hit a whiffle ball, and then I would write poems. By high school, I was writing plays and writing for the literary magazine and for the weekly newspaper. It wasn’t until my mids that I had the notion that it would be something I would pursue in earnest to earn a living. But once I had that notion, it seemed quite natural because I had been doing it all of my life.”
Hudes is now a nationally recognized playwright, and for the past three years she has taught playwriting to beginning and more advanced writers at Wesleyan. Her plays include 26 Miles, Yemaya’s Belly, the children’s musical Barrio Grrrl!, and the acclaimed Elliot Trilogy, named after a recurrent character who served as a Marine and is based on the author’s cousin. The first in the trilogy, Elliot, A Soldier’s
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