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Quiara Alegría Hudes (born 1977) is an American playwright, producer, lyricist and essayist. She is best known for writing the book for the musical In the Heights (2007), and screenplay for its film adaptation .
Learn about Quiara Alegría Hudes, the author of Water By the Spoonful, In the Heights, and My Broken Language. Discover her musical and spiritual influences, her mentors, and her honors and interviews.
Apr 5, 2018 · Quiara Alegría Hudes Rewrites the American Landscape. In her new musical, “Miss You Like Hell,” Hudes tells a mother-daughter story with national echoes. Photograph by Elliott Jerome Brown ...
Quiara Alegría Hudes is a writer and actress who won the Pulitzer Prize for her play, "Water By the Spoonful." She wrote and produced the musical films In the Heights (2021) and Vivo (2021), and acted in tick, tick... BOOM! (2021).
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Jun 11, 2021 · Both Miranda and screenwriter Quiara Alegría Hudes are children of Puerto Rican migrants. They translated their personal relationships with home and identity to the characters in In the...
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In the Heights — Quiara Alegría Hudes. The Tony Award-winning Broadway musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda (music, lyrics, and conceived by) and Quiara Alegría Hudes (book aka script) is now a major motion picture written by Hudes and directed by Jon M. Chu, included in Vanity Fair’s The 31 Best Feel-Good Movies to Boost Your Mood.
May 1, 2015 · Quiara Alegría Hudes (Fig. 1) won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Water by the Spoonful, the second play in her “Elliot” trilogy. She is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist for Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue, the first play in the trilogy, and the musical In the Heights.
