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Christina Quintana

Christina Quintana
NationalityCuban
BildungMFA Playwriting, Columbia University
SpouseSarah Sala

Christina Quintana is an award-winning writer and playwright with Cuban and Louisiana roots.[1] She has works published in literary journals and produced across the United States, and The Heart Wants, her chapbook of poetry, was published in 2016 by Finishing Line Press.[2] Much of her writing revolves around themes of injustice and loss.[2] She writes around her mantra "you are not alone," and she emphasizes bringing unrepresented voices to the forefront of her narratives. Christina Quintana is also the founder of Quintana Consulting, a writing consultancy for scripts, college and graduate school essays, and cover letters. Additionally, she founded the Live Lunch Series in 2014, a project that aims to bring theatre to workplaces during the lunch hour.[3] This project premiered at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and expanded to The Fortune Society, an organization that helps previously incarcerated people integrate into society.[4]

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Quintana attended New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, a performing-arts high school.[1] She graduated from The College of Santa Fe in 2010 with a degree in theatre.[5] She earned an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University School of the Arts. [1] Under the guidance of Charles Mee in graduate school, Quintana became proficient in accessing content from dreams and other creative sources to incorporate in her writing.[2]

Awards

Quintana is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships for her writing. New York's Playwrights Realm named Christina Quintana as one of their 2017-2018 writing fellowship recipients.[6] Quintana's play Scissoring was one of four finalists for The Alliance Theatre of Atlanta's 10th Annual Alliance/Kendeda National Graduation Playwriting Competition. [7] She was also a 2014 Lambda Literary Emerging Voices Fellow in Fiction. [8] She participated in the 27th Annual Lambda Literary Award ceremony, a prestigious LGBT literary event, in which she presented alongside notable LGBT activists and entertainment personalities such as Alison Bechdel and Andrew Rannels.[8] The Yale Institute for Music Theater selected Quintana's original play Gumbo for their summer lab, which was performed at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in 2017.[9] Quintana was one of 87 artists awarded the MacDowell Colony Fellowship in 2018. [10] Her play Azul received Honorable Mention for the 2017 Arch & Bruce Brown Playwriting Competition. [11] Quintana is the recipient of the 2017 Van Lier New Voices Fellowship which helps early career playwrights of color enter the theatre industry.[12]

Plays and Poetry

  • Scissoring[7]
  • Gumbo[9]
  • Azul[11]
  • Citizen Scientist[13]
  • Three Thousand Seizures[13]
  • Flor to Somewhere[13]
  • Mr. San Man[13]
  • Enter Your Sleep[14]
  • Evensong[15]
  • The Great Lonely Roamer & The Night that Changed Everything[16]
  • Blank Canvas[17]
  • A Slip of Moon
  • The Heart Wants (Chapbook of Poetry)[17]

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  1. ^ a b c Smith, Kelundra (2016). "Facing South". American Theatre. 33.8: 118–121 – via ProQuest.
  2. ^ a b c "Author Q&A: Christina Quintana | Tethered by Letters". tetheredbyletters.com. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
  3. ^ "The Live Lunch Series". Fractured Atlas. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  4. ^ "The Live Lunch Series: The Fortune Society Edition". Indiegogo. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  5. ^ "College of Santa Fe Celebrates its Graduating Class of 2010". Targeted News Service. June 2, 2010. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  6. ^ "Awards & Prizes". American Theatre. 34.9: 11. November 2017 – via Theatre Communications Group.
  7. ^ a b "The Alliance Theatre of Atlanta has announced". American Theatre: 19. February 2014 – via Academic OneFile.
  8. ^ a b 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.
  9. ^ a b "'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.
  10. ^ Selvin, Claire (2018-08-29). "MacDowell Colony Awards Fellowships to 87 Artists". ARTnews. Retrieved 2018-12-04.
  11. ^ a b "Foundation Announces Winners of 2017 Playwriting Competition | Arch & Bruce Brown Foundation". aabbfoundation.org. Retrieved 2018-12-04.
  12. ^ "The Lark Awards Brittany K. Allen and Christina Quintana with 2017 Van Lier New Voices Fellowship". The Lark. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  13. ^ a b c d "Christina Quintana on planet hunting, academic anxiety, women's basketball, and CITIZEN SCIENTIST". Ensemble Studio Theatre. February 6, 2018. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  14. ^ "INTERVIEW: CHRISTINA QUINTANA OF "ENTER YOUR SLEEP"". The Basement Plays. February 24, 2012. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  15. ^ "The List 2017". The Kilroys. 2017-05-12. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  16. ^ "The Great Lonely Roamer & The Night That Changed Everything | New Play Exchange". New Play Exchange. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  17. ^ a b "Featured Playwrights: Christina Quintana". The Lark. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
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