Background
Hudes was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to a Jewish father and a Puerto Rican mother.
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Quiara Alegria Hudes
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She also studied at the Mary Louise Curtis Branch of Settlement Music School, taking piano lessons with Dolly Krasnopolsky. She graduated from Central High School. She studied music composition at Yale University, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts, and playwriting at Brown University, earning an Master of Fine Arts She is a resident writer at New Dramatists and a previous Page 73 Playwriting Fellow.
Career
Her latest play, The Happiest Song Last, the third in the Eliot trilogy, opened at the Goodman Theater in Chicago on April 13, 2013, and Office-Broadway at Second Stage in March 2014.
Achievements
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She won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Water by the Spoonful. In its original Office-Broadway incarnation, In the Heights received the Lucille Lortel Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical. Was named Best Musical of 2007 by New York Magazine and Best of 2007 by the New York Times. And garnered Hudes an HOLA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting from the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors. Hudes" first play, Yemaya"s Belly, received the 2003 Clauder Competition for New England Playwriting, the Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting, and the Kennedy Center/ACTF Latina Playwriting Award and had productions at the Portland Stage Company (2005), the Signature Theatre (Arlington, Virginia (2005), and Miracle Theatre. In 2012, her play Water by the Spoonful, which returns to the characters in Eliot, won the Pulitzer Prize after its premiere at the Hartford Stage Company.
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