Story/Teller Arts: Quiara Alegría Hudes on My Broken Language

Featuring

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  Quiara Alegría Hudes

  Quiara Alegría Hudes

  Quiara Alegría Hudes is the Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright of Water by the Spoonful; author of the memoir, My Broken Language; and screenwriter of Vivo. For Broadway, she wrote the book for the Tony Award–winning musical, In the Heights, as well as the screenplay for its film adaptation. Her essays have appeared in The Nation, The Cut, New York Times, Washington Post, and American Theatre. With her cousin, Hudes cofounded Emancipated Stories to help incarcerated people share one page of their life story with the world.

  
  

  Photo Credit: Jon M. Chu

  
  
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  Yadira Correa

  Yadira Correa

  Yadira Correa. Off-Broadway: Truckers (INTAR); My Broken Language (understudy, Signature Theatre); La Conducta de la Vida (Repertorio Español). Regional: All My Sons (Hartford Stage), 2666 (Goodman Theatre); MALA, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, As You Like It (Old Globe); Comedy of Errors (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Water by the Spoonful (Court Theatre). TV: Chicago P.D., Blindspot, The Punisher, New Amsterdam. Education/Training:
  The Old Globe and University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Program MFA in Acting.

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  Daphne Rubin-Vega

  Daphne Rubin-Vega

  Daphne Rubin-Vega can currently be heard voicing the role of ‘CARMILLA CARMINE’ in the highly anticipated A24/Prime Video animated series HAZBIN HOTEL. She will next be seen recurring on season 4 of the Hulu’s hit series ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING and in the Tony Goldwyn feature EZRA. She was most recently seen in a recurring role on the Apple TV+ series THE CHANGELING opposite Lakeith Stanfield, Clark Backo, and Adina Porter and in David Duchovny’s feature BUCKY F*CKING DENT. She was previously seen as a guest lead on FOX’s anthology series ACCUSED, directed by Marlee Matlin, and starring in the independent feature ALLSWELL, also produced by her, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival. Rubin-Vega starred in the Jon Chu–directed Warner Brothers feature IN THE HEIGHTS as ‘Daniela.’ During the pandemic, she shot the Netflix series SOCIAL DISTANCE, produced by Jenji Kohan and Tara Hermann, and SAME STORM, the newest Peter Hedges film. Additional TV credits include THE HORROR OF DOLORES ROACH (Prime Video), which Rubin-Vega developed into both scripted podcast and TV iterations, KATY KEENE (CW) and TALES OF THE CITY (Netflix).

  A staple of the New York theater community, Daphne earned a Tony nomination for her portrayal of ‘Mimi’ in the original cast of RENT, and another for ANNA IN THE TROPICS. She was most recently seen starring in the Signature Theatre’s NIGHT OF THE IGUANA opposite Tim Daly and Lea DeLaria. She starred in the musical MISS YOU LIKE HELL at The Public Theater and in the one-woman show EMPANADA LOCA, which was written for her. She helped adapt the play into the scripted podcast, THE HORROR OF DOLORES ROACH, which was then adapted into a TV series for Amazon. Additional theater credits include Broadway revivals of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, and LES MIS; TWO SISTERS AND A PIANO and F*CKING A at The Public; ROMEO & JULIET at Classic Stage; and JACK GOES BOATING opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman.

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  Yani Marin

  Yani Marin

  Yani Marin is an actress, dancer, and singer from New Jersey and a proud daughter of Cuban immigrant parents. She began her professional career at the age of nine, dancing with the New York City Ballet, and later went on to graduate from NYU, Tisch School of the Arts. She toured the world with Beyoncé as a backup dancer in The Beyoncé Experience, where she met her wife. Soon after, Yani landed her first Broadway show, West Side Story, where she had the opportunity to understudy and perform the role of Anita, awakening her passion for acting. Other Broadway credits: Bob Fosse’s Dancin’, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Wicked. On screen, Yani has had recurring roles in Jack Ryan and Empire. Other TV credits: The Blacklist, Tommy, Blue Bloods, NCIS: LA, Criminal Minds, One Bad Choice and Smash. Yani is currently in pre-production for a short film, led by Latinas, which she wrote and will star in. @iamyanimarin

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  Samora la Perdida

  Samora la Perdida

  Samora la Perdida (she/they) is a trilingual creator and performer. She starred in the 2022 Off-Broadway productions of Soho Rep’s Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members, Quiara Alegría Hudes’s My Broken Language at Signature Theatre, as well as Tina Landau’s A Transparent Musical at the Mark Taper Forum in 2023. She recently performed in Dylan Mulvaney’s DAY 365! LIVE at the Rainbow Room and workshopped the lead role of John Leguizamo’s new musical comedy SHESUS. Her TEDx Talk, Do Latines Need to Speak Spanish? Finding Your Lost Mother Tongue, features spoken word and music from her upcoming musical: Spanglish Sh!t. Spanglish Sh!t has been developed with Berkeley Rep, NYSCA, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Latiné Music Theater Lab and En Garde Arts. la Perdida graduated from LaGuardia HS as a YoungArts Presidential Scholar in the Arts, and from Carnegie Mellon University with a dual degree in Drama and Global Studies.

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  Marilyn Torres

  Marilyn Torres

  Marilyn Torres hails from Harlem, New York. She’s graced the stage in plays such as My Broken Language at Signature Theatre, There’s Always the Hudson at Woolly Mammoth, Water by the Spoonful at The Old Globe, Breath Boom at Yale Rep, Agony of the Agony at The Vineyard, Bike America at Alliance Theater and Ma-Yi Theater. Ms. Torres was also part of The Tribeca Theater Festival in Late Night, Early Morning, produced by Robert De Niro. It went on to be produced at The HBO Comedy Festival where it won a Jury Award for Best Theater Piece. Film credits include Maid in Manhattan, Lady in the Water, Bella, Bernard & Doris, The Arrangement, Home and The Big Sick. She’s had principal roles on Law & Order, Law & Order SVU, Flight of the Concord, Third Watch and The Chris Rock Show. Her most recent role was on Marvel’s Dare Devil, High Maintenance and The King of Staten Island with Pete Davidson and ABC’s For Life. Marilyn has won The Moth Story Slam, performed stories for the mainstage, and serves as host for their shows, throughout New York City. Ms. Torres teaches playwriting as a teaching artist, in NYC publics schools, juvenile centers and Rikers Island. Additionally, she is a trained Radical Aliveness practitioner and facilitates groups, regarding cultural sensitivity, systems orientation, and self-awareness.