Photo Flash: ELLIOT, A SOLDIER'S FUGUE Comes to the Canterbury Family Main Stage Theatre

Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Quiara Alegría Hudes takes a poignant look at the way war permeates young men's lives in a play spanning three generations of the same Puerto Rican-American family. Elliot is a Marine Corps hero back from Iraq with an injured leg and a Purple Heart. His Pop was wounded in Vietnam; his flute-playing Grandpop fought in Korea. In a fugue-like form, different wars and different tales are strung together as Ginny, his mother, seeks to reconcile the disparate parts and heal emotional wounds. Hudes' spare, intense, and poetically resonant play speaks to the personal cost of war across the ages.

David serves as the Executive Artistic Director of Cara Mi?a Theatre and specializes in writing, directing and producing bilingual plays. Notable writing credits include Crystal City 1969 (co-written with Raul Trevin?o), Nuestra Pastorela (co-written with Jeffry Farrell), To DIE:GO in Leaves by Frida Kahlo, The Dreamers: A Bloodline, and Cholos y Chulas (all devised with Cara Mi?a Theatre). Recently, Lozano co-wrote Deferred Action for a Cara Mi?a Theatre and Dallas Theater Center co-production at the Wyly Theatre. Last fall, Deferred Action toured through Texas and performed at the Encuentro de las Americas international theatre festival in Los Angeles. Directing credits include Deferred Action, Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca, Lydia by Octavio Solis, The Magic Rainforest by Jose? Cruz Gonzalez (with Jeffrey Colangelo), a bilingualRomeo and Julieta by William Shakespeare and adapted by Lozano and Frida Espinosa Mu?ller, The Dreamers: A Bloodline by Cara Mi?a Theatre's ensemble, Milagritos by Sandra Cisneros and adapted by Marisela Barrera, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros and adapted by Amy Ludwig, and Crystal City 1969. Lozano is proud to return to WaterTower Theatre after directing Native Gardens last spring.

Quiara Alegría Hudes is the author of a trilogy of plays including Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue (2006),Water by the Spoonful (2011), and The Happiest Song Plays Last (2012). Elliot, A Soldier's Fuguepremiered Off-Off Broadway by Page 73 Productions and was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Water by the Spoonful premiered at Hartford Stage Company and won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Happiest Song Plays Last premiered at The Goodman Theatre in Chicago (2013). Hudes wrote the book for the Broadway musical In the Heights, which received the 2008 Tony Award for Best Musical, a Tony nomination for Best Book of a Musical, and was a 2009 Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Other works include the plays 26 Miles, Yemaya's Belly, and the children's musical Barrio Grrrl! Hudes grew up in West Philadelphia where she studied music with Don Rappaport, Dolly Kranzapolski, and Linda Hudes. She was later mentored by playwright Paula Vogel at Brown University. Hudes is an alumna of New Dramatists and sits on the Board of the Philadelphia Young Playwrights, which produced her first play in the tenth grade. She now lives in New York with her husband and daughter. www.quiara.com

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