Melinda Lopez

Playwright, Mala

Melinda Lopez is a playwriting fellow at The Huntington Theatre, where SONIA FLEW was developed and premiered in 2004. The play won the Elliott Norton Award for Best New Play and since then has been produced at regional theatres throughout the country, including Steppenwolf Theatre, American Contemporary Theatre Festival and Laguna Playhouse. It was part of the New York Summer Play Festival in 2006 and is published by Dramatists Play Service. GARY, a play with music, was developed at the First Look Series at Steppenwolf and then produced at the Boston Playwright’s Theater. Her play ALEXANDROS was commissioned by and received its premiere at the Laguna Playhouse in 2007. South Coast Repertory commissioned CAROLINE IN NEW JERSEY, which received its premiere at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Ms. Lopez was the first recipient of the Charlotte Woolard Award, given by the Kennedy Center to a “promising new voice in American Theatre.” Her award-winning plays include MIDNIGHT SANDWICH/MEDIANOCHE, THE ORDER OF THINGS (Kennedy Center Fund for New Plays) and HOW DO YOU SPELL HOPE? for the Underground Railway Theatre. She is also an actress and has appeared at the Huntington Theatre, the Guthrie Theatre, and Shakespeare & Co. Ms. Lopez teaches theater and performance at Suffolk University and Wellesley College.