Quiara Alegría Hudes

thumb|Quiara Alegría Hudes in 2021 Quiara Alegría Hudes (born 1977) is an American playwright, lyricist and essayist. Quotes …with any story there are infinite ways to tell it, infinite character arcs to follow, when you drop the needle into the story, and when you pick the needle up. On the structure of her play Daphne’s Dive in “An Interview with Quiara Alegría Hudes” in The Interval (2016 May 17) I pretty much live in the details of them, and they teach me while I’m writing. I don’t come to it thinking, “I want this character to serve this function in the play.” I have a very inside out approach as opposed to outside in… On character writing in “An Interview with Quiara Alegría Hudes” in The Interval (2016 May 17) …As I was visualizing the play, before I even started writing it, I just imagined three characters and their lives happening, their stories happening, on top of each other. It just visually felt like a fugue to me. If you read music, you can picture a Bach fugue. You have one line and the line can come back inverted and they’ll be playing on top of each other and I was like, that’s cool. That feels like something to me. I also was excited about combining this Latin world and this very western music classics world… On her play Billy, A Soldier’s Fugue in “Quiara Alegría Hudes: Water by the Spoonful” in Guernica Magazine (2012 Jul 2) In Latino culture the idea of the border is very contemporary. It’s very much of our world, its politics are important to us. It’s also a part of our emotional relationship to the rest of our family in Puerto Rico, or wherever, and our own relationship to roots—the land of our roots—and where we are now… On the concept of the border in “Quiara Alegría Hudes: Water by the Spoonful” in Guernica Magazine (2012 Jul 2) External links Category:Hispanic Americans Category:Playwrights from the United States Category:Songwriters from the United States Category:Essayists from the United States Category:Lyricists Category:1977 births Category:Living people Category:Jews from the United States Category:Pulitzer Prize winners Category:People from Philadelphia Category:Yale University alumni