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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. Hudes' first play in her Elliot Trilogy, Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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Quiara Alegría Hudes is the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Water By the Spoonful; author of a memoir, My Broken Language; and screenwriter of Vivo. She wrote the script for 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 ...
Apr 5, 2018 · When Quiara Alegría Hudes was growing up in Philadelphia, in the nineteen-eighties, her Puerto Rican mother would blast Afro-Caribbean tracks “every morning, volume eleven.” On weekends, she ...
Quiara Alegría Hudes. Writer: In the Heights. Quiara Alegría Hudes was born on 22 September 1977 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She is a writer and actress, known for In the Heights (2021), tick, tick...
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Jun 11, 2021 · NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Lin-Manuel Miranda and screenwriter Quiara Alegría Hudes about their new film In the Heights, based off the Tony-award winning musical Miranda created and starred in.
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Nov 14, 2022 · Quiara Alegría Hudes adapts her autobiography for the stage, showing how the arts we attend to, and the people we know, make us who we are. By Vinson Cunningham. November 14, 2022
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.
