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Cost

Free

Venue

Playwrights’ Center, 710 Raymond Ave, Saint Paul, MN 55114

Date/time

December 2 at 7:30 p.m.

About the event

Join us for an exciting Artists in Conversation with Quiara Alegría Hudes!

Quiara is a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright, novelist, and essayist. Dramatists Guild Foundation Director of Programs Jacquelyn Jordan will join us for the conversation, covering topics such as writing across disciplines and genres, staying true to your own artistic voice, and “balancing” life and art.

 

This event is presented in partnership with the Dramatists Guild Foundation (DGF) as part of its Roe Green Visiting Voices program.

The Dramatists Guild Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fueling the future of American theater by supporting the writers who create it. Through financial assistance, educational opportunities, writing spaces, and other vital resources, DGF supports playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists at every stage of their careers.

To learn more about DGF’s programs and opportunities, visit DGF.org and follow along on social media at @dgfound.

Making your reservation

This is an in-person, ticketed event at Playwrights’ Center on December 2 at 7:30 p.m.

Please use the sign up link below to reserve your spot in advance.

If you have any questions about making your reservation, please email us at rsvp@pwcenter.org.

When to arrive

All seating is general admission. We recommend arriving at least 10-15 minutes prior to the reading to check in and find your seat. Please note, free parking is limited around the Center.

Visit our About page to learn more about parking and accessibility.

Large groups

If you are making a reservation for more than eight people, please email rsvp@pwcenter.org to arrange. If you make a reservation for more than eight, a member of our team may be in touch closer to the event date to confirm final numbers for your group.

Quiara Alegría Hudes

Guest Artist
Quiara Alegría
Quiara Alegría Hudes is the author of eight plays, three musicals, two films, a memoir, and a novel. Her influential stage works include Water By the Spoonful which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and has become a staple of college classrooms, and the Broadway hit In the Heights which received the Tony Award for Best Musical. Hudes’s memoir, My Broken Language, was One Book, One Philadelphia’s citywide read in her beloved hometown. Her novel The White Hot was shortlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Hudes has contributed essays to the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Cut, and The Nation. With her cousin Sean she co-founded the prison writing project Emancipated Stories, helping people behind bars share one page of their life story with the world. You can watch her films Vivo and In the Heights on airplanes and streaming platforms. A daughter of the Puerto Rican diaspora, Hudes now lives in New York.