C. Quintana (CQ) [any pronouns] is a queer writer with Cuban and New Orleans roots. Most recently, CQ received a 2023 NYSCA grant alongside INTAR to develop her new play, THE PIPIT PLAY DEVELOPMENT CENTER, and a 2022 commission with the Carthage College New Play Initiative for her play THE GENDERLESS PLAY EXPERIMENT. Her Audible Emerging Playwrights Fund audio play commission, THE 126-YEAR-OLD ARTIST, is forthcoming (via Audible) in 2023.
CQ's play CITIZEN SCIENTIST was shortlisted for the Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award in Playwriting and received second place for Barrington Stage Company's Burman New Play Award. Her play AZUL was produced at Diversionary Theatre in 2021 and received its world premiere at Southern Rep in 2019; in 2017 the play was selected for the Kilroys List and...
C. Quintana (CQ) [any pronouns] is a queer writer with Cuban and New Orleans roots. Most recently, CQ received a 2023 NYSCA grant alongside INTAR to develop her new play, THE PIPIT PLAY DEVELOPMENT CENTER, and a 2022 commission with the Carthage College New Play Initiative for her play THE GENDERLESS PLAY EXPERIMENT. Her Audible Emerging Playwrights Fund audio play commission, THE 126-YEAR-OLD ARTIST, is forthcoming (via Audible) in 2023.
CQ's play CITIZEN SCIENTIST was shortlisted for the Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award in Playwriting and received second place for Barrington Stage Company's Burman New Play Award. Her play AZUL was produced at Diversionary Theatre in 2021 and received its world premiere at Southern Rep in 2019; in 2017 the play was selected for the Kilroys List and an honorable mention for the Arch Bruce Brown Playwriting Award and the Leah Ryan Fund Prize. SCISSORING, which had its world premiere at INTAR in the summer of 2018 is now available from Dramatists Play Service. Other produced plays include: BEASTGIRL with music by Janelle Lawrenc (Kennedy Center TYA), EVENSONG (Astoria Performing Arts Center), ENTER YOUR SLEEP (Yale Cabaret), and BLANK CANVAS (“Best Short” Downtown Urban Theatre Festival), and theatre for young audiences: FLOR TO SOMEWHERE, MÚSICA, MÚSICA, MÁXIMO MÚSICA (Peppercorn Theatre Company).
She is the recipient of commissions from The Kennedy Center, Audible, The Civilians, Palo Alto Playhouse, Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Project, Actor’s Express, and Peppercorn Theatre Company, and fellowships from Playwrights Realm, Van Lier New Voices at the Lark, CubaOne, Queer/Art, and Lambda Literary. She is an alum of EST's cohort of emerging playwrights, Youngblood, the WP Lab, and a graduate of the MFA Playwriting program at Columbia University.