Quiara Hudes

Pulitzer Prize-winning Playwright, Screenwriter, Latinx Arts Advocate

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Quiara Hudes Biography

Quiara Alegría Hudes is the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of "Water By the Spoonful"; author of the memoir "My Broken Language"; and screenwriter for the major motion picture "In the Heights". She also wrote the book for the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical and Hollywood blockbuster "In the Heights" and authored other plays and musicals that have been produced around the world. Her work emphasizes diversity and representation, particularly in Latinx communities.

Hudes co-founded Emancipated Stories, a platform where individuals behind bars can share one page of their life story with the world, in opposition to the carceral state. As an advocate for Latinx representation in the arts, Hudes, along with her sister, created the Latinx Casting Manifesto. Her notable essays have been published in The Nation, The Washington Post, and The New York Times, in addition to "High Tide of Heartbreak" in American Theater Magazine and "Corey Couldn’t Take It Anymore" in The Cut. She is also the recipient of the USA Artists Fellowship, the Lucille Lortel Award, and the HOLA Award.

Hudes has spoken at various prestigious venues, including Vanderbilt University, Americans for the Arts, and Google. She continues to lead interactive workshops in theater-making and writing, fostering creative dialogues and expanding narratives within diverse communities. Her dedication to storytelling and community engagement highlights her multifaceted career as a playwright, screenwriter, author, and activist.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 05/20/2024.

Quiara Hudes Speaking Topics

  • A Woman's Journey

    Hudes absorbed the stories of her second-grade educated grandmother, the spiritual teachings of her priestess mother, and the shrewd advice of her powerful female mentors, and forged a literary path all her own. In her own plays she has delved into the female body and spirit while in her life she has balanced changing diapers, building a marriage, service to the community, and leadership at the top of her field. In a searing, sensual, and personal presentation, Hudes discusses the spiritual and intellectual components of her feminine self and the wisdom she inherited from those who came before.

  • The Latino Artist Today

    How do you capture the essence of the wildly diverse, almost undefinable “Latino artist” of today? Through jokes, politics, statistics, anecdotes, and poetic passages, Hudes attempts to define the undefinable next wave of American art.

  • Art and Commerce

    How does an artist put food on the table? How do foundations, donors, and institutions help artists on their wildly unpredictable creative journeys? The needs of the artistic process--freedom, trial and error, long-term exploration--often conflict with the needs of foundations and institutions--return on investment, fiscal year budgeting, concrete reporting. With blatant honesty Hudes dissects the finances of a creative life and discusses how artists and their supporters can forge more organic and beneficial partnerships.

  • A Writer’s Many Selves

    Hudes grew up in an improbably diverse setting--a childhood and adolescence where many nationalities and religious practices intersected as a daily matter of course. How did she find the connective tissue between Vietnamese and Ethiopian neighbors, street performance artists, Quakerism, Santeria and Western classical music to forge a literary voice all her own? In a nation that is increasingly diverse and where check-boxes are incomplete tools of understanding, this bicultural artist finds energy and a new kind of American identity in the connective tissue between her many selves.

Quiara Hudes Videos

  • Women of Yale Lecture: Art and Disruption by Quiara Alegría Hudes ’99
    Yale University President Peter Salovey hosted Quiara Alegría Hudes ’99 on Monday, January 27, for the Women of Yale Lecture Series. The series...
  • Quiara Alegria Hudes & the Letter That Changed Her Life
    "I was ready to uproot myself from my life and to leave my family, and I had already made plans to do so. And then I got a letter in the mail…”
  • Quiara Alegría Hudes on The Elliot Trilogy in Los Angeles
    Immerse yourself in the work of Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes and her acclaimed plays about the homecoming and coming-of-age of a young...

Quiara Hudes Books

  • My Broken Language: A Memoir
    My Broken Language: A Memoir
  • Daphne's Dive
    Daphne's Dive
  • The Happiest Song Plays Last
    The Happiest Song Plays Last
  • Water by the Spoonful (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)
    Water by the Spoonful (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)
  • Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue
    Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue

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Quiara Hudes is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as A Woman's Journey, The Latino Artist Today, Art and Commerce and A Writer’s Many Selves. The estimated speaking fee range to book Quiara Hudes for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Quiara Hudes generally travels from New York, NY, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Olga Custodio, J.R. Martinez, Shayla Rivera, Dolores Huerta and Christian Navarro. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Quiara Hudes for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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