Christina Quintana (CQ)
Christina Quintana (CQ) is a queer writer with Cuban and Louisiana roots. Most recently, her 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. In 2019, AZUL received its world premiere at Southern Rep, and in 2017 was selected for the Kilroys List and honorable mention for the...
Christina Quintana (CQ) is a queer writer with Cuban and Louisiana roots. Most recently, her 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. In 2019, AZUL received its world premiere at Southern Rep, and in 2017 was selected for the Kilroys List and honorable mention for the Arch Bruce Brown Playwriting Award. SCISSORING, which had its world premiere at INTAR in the summer of 2018 is now available from Dramatists Play Service. Other produced plays include: 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 Black Cap Productions, 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 a current WP Lab member, an alum of EST's cohort of emerging playwrights, Youngblood, and a graduate of the MFA Playwriting program at Columbia University.