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Quiara Alegría Hudes returns to Signature for the second play in her Premiere Residency.
Quiara is a West-Philly-born-and-bred language grrrl. Her critically-acclaimed memoir My Broken Language was this year's One Book One Philadelphia citywide read. Her Pulitzer Prize-winning play Water by the Spoonful, and Pulitzer finalist play Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugueexplore the diasporican community in Philly and beyond. For the screen, Hudes adapted her Tony Award-winning musical In the Heightsinto a major motion picture and wrote VIVO, an animated feature, both with collaborator/composer Lin-Manuel Miranda. Her essays have appeared in the Washington Post, The Nation, The Cut, and American Theater Magazine, where High Tide of Heartbreak was read widely throughout the theater industry. With her cousin, Hudes founded and runs a prison writing project, Emancipated Stories.
An exploratory residency geared towards new work, each Premiere Residency writer has at least three premiere productions while in residence at Signature.
Through our Residency Program, we've provided over 37 playwrights (and counting) the opportunity to produce and develop multiple productions, presenting productions exclusively from Signature’s Writers-in-Residence every season.