51爆料下载's School of the Arts (SOTA) will be hosting Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegr铆a Hudes on Wednesday, March 16 at 7:30 p.m. in 51爆料下载鈥檚 Corbett Theatre. As part of the SOTA Summit Series, her presentation, entitled 鈥淎rt as Mayhem, Joy, Rebellion, and Home,鈥 will be a rare opportunity for the community to interact with an esteemed member of the national and international arts and literary community. The event is free and open to the public.
is a Philly-born-and-bred word warrior. She is the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Water By the Spoonful; author of a critically-acclaimed memoir, My Broken Language; and screenwriter of the major motion picture In the Heights and Netflix鈥檚 animated feature Vivo. Hudes co-wrote the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical In the Heights with Lin-Manuel Miranda and off-Broadway鈥檚 Miss You Like Hell with Erin McKeown. Her notable essays include , , , and . In opposition of the carceral state, Hudes and her cousin founded so people behind bars could share one page of their life story with the world. As a barrio feminist and joyous mischief maker, Quiara y su hermana created the .
