Brown Club of Westchester County
Westchester County, New York, United States
February 6 2023, 7:30 PM Eastern Standard Time
- Location
- Virtual
- Virtual
- Westchester County, NY 10504
- USA
- Cost
Quiara Alegría Hudes (www.quiara.com) is best known for writing the book for Lin-Manuel Miranda's In The Heights which won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2008. She subsequently wrote the screenplay for the musical's film adaptation which was released in 2021. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her 2012 play Water By the Spoonful. My Broken Language is her memoir of growing up in Philadelphia with a Puerto Rican mother and a Jewish father. She received a BA from Yale University in 1999 and a MFA in playwriting from Brown University in 2004.
“My Broken Language is such a flawless demonstration of . . . strife with linguistic inheritance that it nearly broke me. In the moments after I finished reading, first came the aphasia of wonder at a book that exceeds you; and then, swiftly crowding out the silence, the cresting roar of my own Afro-Caribbean ancestors shouting Ogún Balenyó in unison.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Wise, graceful, and devastatingly beautiful, Hudes’s memoir gives voice to the complicated cultural collisions and gentle rebellions that seed a life. I was inspired and moved by the resilient spirit of Hudes and the Perez women, who through joy and great heartbreak manage to conjure a remarkable world in and beyond their Philly barrio.”—Lynn Nottage, two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright
“Quiara Alegría Hudes is in her own league. Her sentences will take your breath away. How lucky we are to have her telling our stories.”—Lin-Manuel Miranda, award-winning creator of Hamilton and In the Heights
GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • The Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and co-writer of In the Heights tells her lyrical story of coming of age against the backdrop of an ailing Philadelphia barrio, with her sprawling Puerto Rican family as a collective muse.