Quiara Alegría
Hudes
c/o Bruce Ostler
Bret Adams Ltd Artists' Agency
448 West 44th Street
New York, NY 10036
(212) 765-5630
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ELLIOT (A SOLDIER'S FUGUE)
One-act drama/90 minutes
3M, 1W
Unit set
A Puerto Rican family transplants itself in New York, then Philadelphia.
Three generations from three locations have fought in three major wars:
Korea, then Vietnam, then Iraq. The grandfather, father and son attempt
to narrate each other’s stories and, in the process, make sense of their
own. The intertwined stories unfold onstage like the braided and broken
themes of a Bach fugue.
New York premiere, Page 73 Productions (2005); Alliance Theatre Company
(2006); Steppenwolf Garage/Teatro Vista/Rivendell Ensemble (2006); The
New Theatre (2006); Miracle Theatre (2005); recipient of the Page 73
Playwriting Fellowship (2004-05).
"Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue is that rare
and rewarding thing: a theater work that succeeds on every level, while
creating something new." —The New York Times
YEMAYA'S BELLY
Drama/95 minutes
3M, 2W
Flexible set
A fantastical tale about one boy’s immigration to the United States,
Yemaya’s Belly starts on the poor mountain farm of a Caribbean island
and ends on the tempestuous ocean sailing towards the new world. The
hero is guided along his coming-of-age journey by a bottle of cold coke,
a street-wise girl, and Yemayá, Yoruba deity of the oceans. But blocking
his path are the ghosts of his hometown and the haunted depths of the
middle passage. The story is lifted to epic heights through its
exploration of ritual and Afro-Caribbean spirituality.
World premiere, Portland Stage
Company (2005); Signature Theatre (2005); People’s Light & Theatre
Company (2006); Detroit Repertory Theatre (2006); Miracle Theatre
(2004); South Coast Repertory workshop (2004); recipient of the Clauder
Prize, The Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting, and the Kennedy Center
American College Theatre Festival Latina Playwriting Award.
THE ADVENTURES OF BARRIO GRRRL!
Installment 12: Lulu’s Golden Shoes
Dark comedy/95 minutes
4W, 2M
Flexible set
Welcome back to the long awaited next chapter of… The Adventures of
Barrio Grrrl! Actually, in real life Ana is the ultimate underdog and so
are all the women she loves. So this chubby girl from the barrio decides
to become a superhero and save their beautiful hearts from complete
obliteration. What ensues is Barrio Grrrl’s comic-book vision of how
great the world can really be. It’s a fierce play that takes the hardest
edges of North Philly’s ghettos and turns them into gold.
Miracle Theatre (2004); Summer
Play Festival (2005); South Coast Repertory workshop (2004).
“An exuberant, richly imaginative theatricality that's entrancing.”—The
Oregonian
“Sensual magic.”—Willamette Week