C. Quintana
American playwright and poet
CQ Quintana (also known as C. Quintana and previously known as Christina Quintana) is a Cuban-American playwright, poet, and writer. Her works have been published in literary journals and produced across the United States. Quintana's full-length audio play The 126-Year Old Artist is available via Audible, published in 2023, Scissoring, another full-length play, was published and licensed by Dramatists Play Service in 2019, and The Heart Wants, her chapbook of poetry, was published in 2016 by Finishing Line Press.
Education and career
Quintana attended Ursuline Academy New Orleans and the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, a performing-arts high school. She graduated from College of Santa Fe in 2010 with a degree in theatre and a minor in creative writing. Under the guidance of Charles Mee, she earned an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University School of the Arts.
Quintana is the founder of QuintanaTown Consulting, a writing consultancy for the support and development of scripts and creative writing projects. She founded the Live Lunch Series in 2014, a project aiming to bring theatre to workplaces during lunch. The project premiered at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and expanded to The Fortune Society, an organization that helps previously incarcerated people integrate into society.
Much of her writing revolves around themes of injustice, loss, queerness, and marginalized identities.
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