Quiara Alegría Hudes
Puerto Rican-American playwright and librettist whose Water by the Spoonful won the Pulitzer Prize. She wrote the book for the musical In the Heights with Lin-Manuel Miranda. Her work centers on Latinx experience in America, particularly in Philadelphia, with warmth and political engagement.
Works
- Water by the SpoonfulTwo women reconnect through text and drugs after decades apart
- Elliot, A Soldier's FugueMusical drama following three generations of a Latino family through war trauma
- In the HeightsMusical about ambition and community in a New York neighborhood
- The Happiest Song Plays LastThree women confront family secrets and reinvention across generations
- Miss You Like HellMusical romance between a guard and woman across a Mexico-US border