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Quiara Alegría Hudes

Quiara Alegría Hudes is an American playwright from Philadelphia best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning play Water By the Spoonful and for co-writing the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights, with Lin Manuel Miranda, along with its on-screen adaptation. She has also written many essays that have appeared in the Washington Post, The Nation, and American Theater Magazine. She is also the co-foudner of Emancipated Stories, a prison writing project that allows encarcerated people a creative outlet through prose and poetry.
For more, visit here: http://www.quiara.com/bio
Watch her interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L1myN-G6ZA
https://www.pbs.org/to-the-contrary/watch/12195
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