Christina Quintana (CQ)

Christina Quintana (CQ) is a writer with Cuban and Louisiana roots. Her plays and musicals include: Citizen Scientist (Barrington Stage Company Burman New Play Award), AZUL (Southern Rep), Scissoring (INTAR, available via Dramatists Play Service), Evensong (Astoria Performing Arts Center), and Enter Your Sleep (Yale Cabaret), among others. She is the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, Playwrights Realm, Van Lier New Voices at the Lark, Queer/Art and Lambda Literary, and holds an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University. Most recently, her dystopian television pilot, Invisible Lily, was featured on the 2020 WeForShe “Ones to Watch” List, and CQ served as staff writer on the upcoming ABC series The Baker and the Beauty. She is currently at work on a new musical commissioned by Black Cap Productions based on Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America by Roberto G. Gonzales. For more, visit www.cquintana.com