Christina Quintana
| Christina Quintana | |
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| Born | |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 🏫 Education | Santa Fe University of Art and Design Columbia University School of the Arts (MFA) |
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| 🌐 Website | cquintana |
Christina Quintana, who also goes by CQ, is an American playwright and poet with Cuban and Louisiana roots.[1] Her works have been published in literary journals and produced across the United States. The Heart Wants, her chapbook of poetry, was published in 2016 by Finishing Line Press.[2]
Education and career[edit]
Quintana attended Ursuline Academy New Orleans and New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, a performing-arts high school.[1] She graduated from Santa Fe University of Art and Design in 2010 with a degree in theatre and a minor in creative writing.[3] Under the guidance of Charles Mee, she earned an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University School of the Arts.[1]
Quintana is the founder of Quintana Consulting, a writing consultancy for scripts, college and graduate school essays, and cover letters. She founded the Live Lunch Series in 2014, a project aiming to bring theatre to workplaces during lunch.[4] The project premiered at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and expanded to The Fortune Society, an organization that helps previously incarcerated people integrate into society.[5]
Much of her writing revolves around themes of injustice, loss, queerness, and marginalized identities.[2] At her website, she self-identifies as "a queer writer with Cuban and Louisiana roots," and says she "tells stories that mine the misconception of dissimilarity and proclaim, 'You are not alone.'"[6]
Awards[edit]
Quintana is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships for her writing:
- 2014 Lambda Literary Emerging Voices Fellow in Fiction[7]
- 2017 Van Lier New Voices Fellowship[8]
- 2017 Arch & Bruce Brown Playwriting Competition – Honorable Mention: Azul[9]
- 2017-18 New York's Playwrights Realm writing fellowship recipient[10]
- 2018 MacDowell Colony Fellowship[11]
Plays[edit]
- Enter Your Sleep (2012): Productions with Elm Theatre New Orleans, Baby Crow Productions, and Yale Cabaret[12]
- Blank Canvas (2014): Production (awarded "Best Short") in the 12th annual Downtown Urban Theater Festival[13]
- Scissoring (2014): World Premiere at INTAR (2018);[14] staged reading (2014) at the Alliance Theatre[15]
- Three Thousand Seizures (2015): Semifinalist for Southern Rep Ruby Prize[16]
- Evensong (2016): World Premiere at Astoria Performing Arts Center[17]
- The Great Lonely Roamer & The Night that Changed Everything (2016): Workshop Production in NYU Voices Festival[18]
- Gumbo (2017): Selected by the Yale Institute for Music Theatre for their 2017 Summer Lab[19]
- Azul (2017): Honorable Mention in the Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation playwriting competition[9]
- Citizen Scientist (2018): Public reading at the 2018 First Light Festival, hosted by the EST/Sloan Project (commission)[20]
- Mr. San Man (2018): Studio Retreat and public readings at the Lark Theatre[20]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Smith, Kelundra (2016). "Facing South". American Theatre. 33 (8): 118–121 – via ProQuest.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Author Q&A: Christina Quintana | Tethered by Letters". tetheredbyletters.com. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
- ↑ "College of Santa Fe Celebrates its Graduating Class of 2010". Targeted News Service. June 2, 2010.
- ↑ "The Live Lunch Series". Fractured Atlas.
- ↑ "The Live Lunch Series: The Fortune Society Edition". Indiegogo.
- ↑ Quintana, Christina (2020). "CQ: Writer". Christina Quintana. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
- ↑ Valenzuela, Tony (April 22, 2015). "Rita Mae Brown & John Waters to be Honored at the 27th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary Review – via ProQuest.
- ↑ "The Lark Awards Brittany K. Allen and Christina Quintana with 2017 Van Lier New Voices Fellowship". The Lark.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Foundation Announces Winners of 2017 Playwriting Competition | Arch & Bruce Brown Foundation". aabbfoundation.org. Retrieved 2018-12-04.
- ↑ "Awards & Prizes". American Theatre. 34 (9): 11. November 2017 – via Theatre Communications Group.
- ↑ Selvin, Claire (2018-08-29). "MacDowell Colony Awards Fellowships to 87 Artists". ARTnews. Retrieved 2018-12-04.
- ↑ "When P.K. Met Glory". New Haven Review. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
- ↑ "HERE | SHOWS | 12th Annual Downtown Urban Theater Festival". www.here.org. Archived from the original on 2018-11-25. Retrieved 2018-12-10. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Collins-Hughes, Laura (2018-06-30). "Review: In 'Scissoring,' Visits From Ghosts of a Closeted Past". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
- ↑ "The Alliance Theatre of Atlanta has announced". American Theatre: 19. February 2014 – via Academic OneFile.
- ↑ "SOUTHERN REP THEATRE ANNOUNCES WINNER OF THE 2015 RUBY PRIZE" (PDF). www.southernrep.com. 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-09-12. Retrieved 2018-12-10. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Evensong « APAC – Astoria Performing Arts Center". Retrieved 2018-12-10.
- ↑ "The Great Lonely Roamer & The Night That Changed Everything | New Play Exchange". New Play Exchange.
- ↑ "'Distinctive and original' music theater works to be developed in intensive summer lab at Yale School of Drama". YaleNews. 2017-03-29. Retrieved 2018-12-04.
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 "Christina Quintana on planet hunting, academic anxiety, women's basketball, and CITIZEN SCIENTIST". Ensemble Studio Theatre. February 6, 2018.
External links[edit]
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- Columbia University School of the Arts alumni
- Lesbian writers
- LGBT dramatists and playwrights
- American writers of Cuban descent
- American women dramatists and playwrights
- 21st-century American dramatists and playwrights
- 21st-century American women writers
- Santa Fe University of Art and Design alumni
- MacDowell Colony fellows
