Quiara alegria hudes biography of william hill
Quiara Alegria Hudes, 44, a former Germantown resident, may not be a household name, but she co-wrote “In the Heights” with Lin Manuel Miranda.
Quiara Alegría Hudes's reputation as a notable theatre practitioner, writing and producing plays for and about her Latin American community.!
Quiara Alegría Hudes
American playwright and composer (born )
Quiara Alegría Hudes (born January 1, ) is an American playwright, producer, lyricist and essayist.
She is best known for writing the book for the musicalIn the Heights (), and screenplay for its film adaptation. Hudes' first play in her Elliot Trilogy, Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
She received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Water by the Spoonful, her second play in that trilogy.
Early life and education
Hudes was born in in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,[1] to a Jewish father and a Puerto Rican mother.[2] They raised her in West Philadelphia, where she began writing and composing music as a child.[3] She studied at the Mary Louise Curtis Branch of Settlement Music School, taking piano lessons with Dolly Krasnopolsky.[4] Hudes has said that, although she is of "Puerto Rican and Jewish blood", she was "raised by two Puer