Melinda Lopez
Actor, author / playwright
She is an actress and playwright-in-residence at the Huntington Theatre. She also teaches playwrighting at Boston University and theatre and performance at Wellesley College. She is the recipient of the 2013 and 2016 Mellon Foundation national Playwrights Fellowship.
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Sonia Flew
Author / Playwright
2003 -
Becoming Cuba
Author / Playwright
2013 -
What the Market Will Bear
Author / Playwright
2001 -
Midnight Sandwich / Medianoche
Author / Playwright
1999 -
Alexandros
Author / Playwright
2005 -
The Lesson
Author / Playwright
2000 -
Back the Night
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Scenes from a Bordello
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Gary
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From Orchids to Octopii
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Mala
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The Two-Fifteen Local
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Sarasota
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Bad Santa
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Amber Beads
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Labrats
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Mr. Parent
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Stir
Author / Playwright
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Stir
Mariana
Conrad Prebys Theatre Center
May 4, 2024 - May 26, 2024 -
Mala
Actor / actress
Calderwood Pavillion at the BCA
January 6, 2018 - February 4, 2018 -
Midnight Sandwhich / Medianoche
Performer
Coconut Grove Playhouse
November 1999 - February 6, 2000
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- El teatro como puente de Estados Unidos y Cuba
- Camagüey: una fiesta para el teatro cubano
- Teatro de todas partes
- Festival Nacional de Teatro de Camagüey. A paso de gato por la Isla y el teatro, otra vez
- Escena cubana en renovación constante
- Grand Concourse
- Mala
- ArtsEmerson Nails the World Premiere of Melinda López's "Mala"
- Teaching Theatre in Precarius Times. Strategies for Survival in the Liberal Arts Curriculum
- Becoming Cuba
- Becoming Cuba
- Melinda Lopez: Dramatic Evolution
- Sonia Flies Into Florida International University
- Katharine Luckinbill acts in long shadow of showbiz legend
- Reunion goes haywire in 'Alexandros'
- Operation Pedro Pan: A Tale of Trauma and Remembrance
- The Lost Apple Plays: Performing Operation Pedro Pan
- Fom Mabel to Sonia, Arnaz Tied to Miami
- Lucie Arnaz: Su herencia cubana en Sonia
- Drama y dificultades de Sonia y Belisa
- Meet Melinda Lopez: Playwright, Equity Actor, and Mom
- Sonia Flew
- Cuban Current
- Cuban American Jewish Odyssey
Author: Lillian Manzor (2017; 2018)