Playwright / Writer / Consultant
CHRISTINA QUINTANA (CQ) is a queer writer with Cuban and Louisiana roots. There is "other" and "in-between" in all of us; CQ tells stories that mine the misconception of dissimilarity and proclaim, "You are not alone."
Her plays and musicals have been developed and produced with companies including Barrington Stage Company, Southern Rep, INTAR, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Lark Play Development Center, Astoria Performing Arts Center, and more. Her play Scissoring is published and available for licensing via Dramatists Play Service and a monologue from Azul is published in The Kilroys List: Volume 2. For more, visit NPX.
CQ's poetry, fiction, and lyric nonfiction is published in Boudin: The Online Home of the McNeese Review, PulpMag, OnCuba, Nimrod Journal, Foglifter, great weather for MEDIA, and and beyond. Her poem "She-lium" was featured on Radiolab's "Elements" episode in collaboration with Emotive Fruition.
This past year, CQ's hour-long dystopian drama pilot, Invisible Lily, appeared on the WeForShe "Ones to Watch" List, and she served as Staff Writer on the ABC series The Baker and the Beauty.
She is the recipient of fellowships and residencies from WP Theater, MacDowell (Ernest and Red Heller Fellow), Playwrights Realm, Van Lier/New Voices at The Lark, CubaOne, Queer/Art, and Lambda Literary, as well as commissions from Audible, The Civilians, Palo Alto Playhouse, EST/Alfred P. Sloan Project, Peppercorn Theatre Company, and more. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University.
writing.
plays.
poetry & prose.
DIGITAL
WILDNESS JOURNAL
"Whitish" (lyric essay)
THE PUNCH MAGAZINE
"Caroline & John" (short story)
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"The Queer Continuum: Emily Hashimoto..." (interview)
BOUDIN: THE MCNEESE REVIEW ONLINE
"In a Dark House" (lyric essay)
"Read (More) Plays" (flash essay)
"Go Hug Your Father" (lyric essay)
"The Three Little Pigs & the Big, Bad Buzzcut-Loving Agenda" (satire)
"Genderfication (Part I: Collaboration)" (lyric essay)
"Living is Contagious: Aimee Herman..." (interview)
"What's in a Name? Why SCISSORING" (essay)
THE LARK BLOG: STAGES OF RESISTANCE
"The Conversation of Resistance"(essay)
"Soul History" (lyric essay)
"Life is an Application" (experimental/lyric essay)
"On Evensong" (essay)
"The Best-Kept Part of You"
(fiction w/ photographer JJ Jetel)
"Historia (For Orlando)" (poetry)
"Alchemy" & "King or Queen(tana)" (poetry)
A Slip of Moon excerpt (fiction)
"Bushwick Avenue-Aberdeen Street" & "Painting" (poetry)
"And How" (poetry)
(Forthcoming Spring 2021)
JACAR PRESS / ACTING UP: QUEER IN THE NEW CENTURY ANTHOLOGY
"Intensive Care" (poetry)
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GREAT WEATHER FOR MEDIA / ESCAPE WHEEL ANTHOLOGY
"Buffalo" (poetry)
The Heart Wants (poetry chapbook)
NIMROD INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
"Origins of Dress" (lyric essay)
FOGLIFTER
"Live Like the Geraces," "After Garner," &"Al" (hybrid/poetry)
SAW PALM
"Cornflakes con Leche" (poetry)
RASPA MAGAZINE
"Love's Equation," "January," and "Reunion" (poetry)
news & events.
contact.
THEATRE
Katie Gamelli
A3 Agency
p: 646-461-9379
TELEVISION/FILM
Steven Selikoff
Shuman Company
p: 310-841-4344
Manal Hammad & Gina Reyes
Verve Talent
CONSULTING + PERSONAL
p: 504-931-7154
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