Quiara Alegría Hudes is the winner of the first Roe Green Award, presented annually to a nationally recognized playwright. The award includes a $7,500 cash prize; a week-long residency including rehearsals; a master class with CPH’s Playwrights’ Unit, Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland State University students; and a public reading of a new play. For her residency, Hudes will workshop a new play set in Philadelphia, titled Daphne's Dive.
Join us after the reading for a free reception in the lobby. Meet the playwright and enjoy light appetizer and an open bar!
Angel Desai: (Kate) returns to Cleveland Play House where she last performed in the FusionFest 2010 reading of Masters of the Universe. She made her Broadway debut in the Tony Award-winning 2006 revival of Company. Off-Broadway credits include The Tempest, opposite Mandy Patinkin, and The Winter's Tale with David Strathairn, both at Classic Stage Company; Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Women's Project, Ma-Yi Theater Company, Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival, and MCC Theater. Regional credits include Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Yale Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Arena Stage, McCarter Theatre Center, Sundance Theater Festival, New York Stage and Film, O'Neill Playwrights Festival, and Cape Cod Theatre Project. Television includes recurring roles on Damages, The Event, Kings, Dollhouse and all three Law and Orders, and guest appearances on The Good Wife and The Eleventh Hour. Film credits include The Clique, The War Within, Heights, Black Knight, and Robot Stories. Desai holds an MFA in Acting from New York University. less returns to Cleveland Play House where she last performed in the FusionFest 2010 reading of Masters of the Universe. She made her Broadway debut in the Tony Award-winning 2006 revival of Company. Off-Broadway credits include The Tempest, opposite Mandy Patinkin, and The Winter's Tale with David Strathairn, both at Classic... more
David Zayas: (Acosta) currently can be seen portraying Angel Batista on Dexter, the hit Showtime drama and 2011 Golden Globes nominee for Best Television Series, Drama. A former New York City police officer, Zayas began his acting career when he joined LAByrinth Theater Company. Since then, he has starred in more than 30 plays, including Jesus Hopped the A Train, In Arabia We'd All Be Kings, and Our Lady Of 121st Street. He starred on Broadway in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna in the Tropics. While performing in plays, he began to book appearances on hit television shows such as New York Undercover, Law & Order, and NYPD Blue, all while still working for the New York Police Department. His success earned him a leading role on UPN's crime drama The Beat. Soon after, Tom Fontana (writer of The Beat) created the character Enrique Morales, the fierce leader of the Latino prisoners on HBO's Oz, especially for Zayas. Feature film credits include The Savages with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Michael Clayton opposite George Clooney, a starring role in the sci-fi thriller Skyline, Sixteen Blocks opposite Bruce Willis, Bringing out the Dead, The Yards, Undefeated, Wit, Angel, The Interpreter, and the ABC mini-series The Path To 9/11. He also recently starred in The Expendables, portraying the villainous General Garza alongside Hollywood heavy-hitters, including Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Mickey Rourke. He will next be seen in 13, where he'll star alongside Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, and 50 Cent. less currently can be seen portraying Angel Batista on Dexter, the hit Showtime drama and 2011 Golden Globes nominee for Best Television Series, Drama. A former New York City police officer, Zayas began his acting career when he joined LAByrinth Theater Company. Since then, he has starred in more than 30... more
James Martinez: (Pablo) Regional theatre credits include Tina Landau's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at McCarter Theatre Center and Paper Mill Playhouse and Breakfast Lunch and Dinner directed by Lisa Peterson at Hartford Stage. Recent New York off-Broadway credits include Itamar Moses' Back Back Back at Manhattan Theatre Club; U.S. Drag directed by Trip Cullman at StageFARM; Asphalt Kiss and Havana Bourgeois at 59E59st Theater; and Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue, Museo Del Barrio. Film and television credits include The Surrogate (Sundance Film Festival 2012), B-Girl (Showtime), The Undeserved (Showtime and IFC Center), Brother to Brother (Sundance 2004), Gravity, Fairly Legal, Breaking Bad, Leverage, A Gifted Man, Law & Order, Law & Order CI, Law & Order SVU and Numb3rs. Martinez is a Juilliard graduate. less Regional theatre credits include Tina Landau's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at McCarter Theatre Center and Paper Mill Playhouse and Breakfast Lunch and Dinner directed by Lisa Peterson at Hartford Stage. Recent New York off-Broadway credits include Itamar Moses' Back Back Back at Manhattan Theatre Club; U.S. Drag directed by Trip... more
Laura Kepley: (Director) directed Cleveland Play House mainstage productions of A Carol for Cleveland (world premiere); In the Next Room, or the vibrator play; and My Name is Asher Lev; and CPH readings of Daphne’s Dive, by inaugural Roe Green Award-winner Quiara Alegría Hudes; Silent Sky; The Fagin Effect; and Three Voyages of the Lobotomobile. Most recently, Kepley directed The Heidi Chronicles for Asolo Repertory Theatre (Fla.). She joined CPH in 2010 as associate artistic director, having arrived from Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island where she directed The Clean House, The Syringa Tree, and world premieres of Shapeshifter, Boots on the Ground, and Some Things are Private. She has directed over 20 new plays including Breadcrumbs at Contemporary American Theatre Festival, The K of D at The Kennedy Center and Orlando/University of Central Florida Shakespeare Festival, and several written by George Brant such as Grizzly Mama at Dobama Theatre, Elephant’s Graveyard at The University of Texas at Austin, and shoptalk for The Drama League’s DIRECTORFEST. She has worked with playwrights on the development of their work at The Public Theater (N.Y.), The Playwright’s Center (Minn.), PlayPenn (Pa.), Naked Angels (N.Y.), The New Harmony Project (Ind.), PlayhouseSquare’s Launch Program (Ohio) and WordBRIDGE Playwrights' Lab (S.C.). Kepley is a Drama League Fellow and a recipient of the 2009 – 2011 National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group Career Development Program for Directors. less directed Cleveland Play House mainstage productions of A Carol for Cleveland (world premiere); In the Next Room, or the vibrator play; and My Name is Asher Lev; and CPH readings of Daphne’s Dive, by inaugural Roe Green Award-winner Quiara Alegría Hudes; Silent Sky; The Fagin Effect; and Three Voyages of... more
Liza Colon-Zayas: (Daphne) is an original member of LAByrinth Theater Company in New York. She appeared in the original productions of In Arabia We'd All Be Kings, Our Lady of 121st Street, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, and The Little Flower of East Orange, all directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman and written by Stephen Adly Guirgis. Other plays include Othello and Story of a Soldier (directed by Peter Sellars); Have You Seen Us?, a new play by Athol Fugard that earned Colón-Zayas a Connecticut Critics Circle nomination in 2009; and Living Out, Lucille Lortell nomination 2004. Her critically praised solo show Sistah Supreme played for a full summer at the first annual Hip-Hop Theater Festival at The Kennedy Center. The show was produced by world-renowned performance artist Danny Hoch and directed and developed by Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis. Colón-Zayas has worked with Academy Award-level artists including Viola Davis, Ellen Burstyn, Mercedes Ruhl, Sam Waterston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robert De Niro, and Al Pacino. less is an original member of LAByrinth Theater Company in New York. She appeared in the original productions of In Arabia We'd All Be Kings, Our Lady of 121st Street, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, and The Little Flower of East Orange, all directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman and written... more
Quiara Alegrķa Hudes: (Playwright)
was just awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Water by the Spoonful. She received her first New York production in 2006: Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue was soon a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama. In 2007 her original musical In the Heights opened off-Broadway – earning Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics' Circle Awards – and was chosen by New York Magazine as that year's Best Musical (Hudes penned the libretto). In the Heights transferred to Broadway where it ran for nearly three years, winning a Tony Award for Best Musical, a Tony nomination for Best Book, and was Hudes' second work to be named a Pulitzer finalist. Hudes' recent play Water by the Spoonful opened at Hartford Stage this past fall. Next up is The Happiest Song Plays Last, which opens at Goodman Theatre next season. Her honors include a United States Artists Fontanals Fellowship, a Resolution from the City of Philadelphia, a Joyce Foundation Award, an Aetna New Voices Fellowship, an HOLA Award for Playwriting, and residencies at the Sundance Theatre Institute, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, and New Dramatists.
The New York Times called Hudes “a confident and arresting voice” and The Atlanta Journal Constitution hailed her as “one of the most important playwrights of her generation.” Hudes was named one of the top 100 Latinos of Year by Latina magazine and was recently featured on the cover of American Theatre magazine. She was recently interviewed on American Theatre Wing’s Working in the Theatre television series discussing the craft with fellow playwrights Lucy Thurber, David Grimm, and Carlyle Brown. Most recently, PBS produced and aired “In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams” as part of its Great Performances series, featuring Hudes reflecting on the process of writing the Broadway musical In the Heights. less
was just awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Water by the Spoonful. She received her first New York production in 2006: Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue was soon a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama. In 2007 her original musical In the Heights opened off-Broadway – earning Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics'...
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Robert Ellis: (Rey) recently appeared at Cleveland Play House in a reading of Quiara Alegría Hudes’ Daphne’s Dive. On CPH’s mainstage, he appeared in The Life of Galileo and A Soldier’s Tale with Catch and Release. Other area acting credits include Stone Cold Dead Serious, Cleveland Public Theatre; Circle, Mirror, Transformation and The Late Henry Moss, Dobama Theatre; Of Mice and Men and Dog Eat Dog, Ensemble Theatre; and Annie Get Your Gun, The Foreigner, The Art of Dining, Inherit the Wind, and The Learned Ladies, Porthouse Theatre. Regional credits include The Illusion, Hippodrome State Theatre in Gainesville, Florida and Harvey with Oldcastle Theatre Company, Bennington, Vermont. Ellis is a professor of theatre at Cuyahoga Community College West, and he is Ohio State chair for Region number three of The Kennedy Center’s American College Theater Festival. He is also a founding member of Something Dada, a respected improvisational theatre launched in downtown Cleveland and currently performing at The Beck Center. less recently appeared at Cleveland Play House in a reading of Quiara Alegría Hudes’ Daphne’s Dive. On CPH’s mainstage, he appeared in The Life of Galileo and A Soldier’s Tale with Catch and Release. Other area acting credits include Stone Cold Dead Serious, Cleveland Public Theatre; Circle, Mirror, Transformation and The... more
Socorro Santiago: (Inez) performed on Broadway in The Bacchae (Circle in the Square) and off-Broadway at the 59E59st Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater, Naked Angels, and Intar, among others. She just completed two shows at Long Wharf Theatre: Eric Ting's MacBeth 1969 and John Patrick Shanley's Italian American Reconciliation (directed by Eric Ting). She has also been blessed to work with 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegria Hudes on Like Water for Chocolate (Sundance Theatre Lab) and the world premiere of 26 Miles (Alliance Theatre). Santiago earned an Independent Reviewers of New England actress nomination for her role in Boleros for the Disenchanted by Jose Rivera at Huntington Theatre. Film credits include soon to be released Order of Redemption, All Good Things, and Freedomland, among many. Numerous television appearances include The Good Wife and all the Law & Orders. She received an American Latino Media Arts (ALMA) Award for her work as Isabella Santos on All My Children. less performed on Broadway in The Bacchae (Circle in the Square) and off-Broadway at the 59E59st Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater, Naked Angels, and Intar, among others. She just completed two shows at Long Wharf Theatre: Eric Ting's MacBeth 1969 and John Patrick Shanley's Italian American... more
Therese Anderberg: (Ruby) appeared at Cleveland Play House as Sally and A Caroler in the world premiere production of A Carol for Cleveland, having also performed in CPH’s Roe Green Award-winning reading of Quiara Alegría Hudes’ Daphne’s Dive alongside such luminaries as David Zayas and Liza Colon-Zayas. For the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program, she appeared in The Misanthrope as Célimène and Stephen Adly Guirgis’ In Arabia We’d All Be Kings as Demaris. Other credits include So Far from God at Chicago Shakespeare Theater for an industry performance and Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland, in the original show Good Death, created in collaboration with Tectonic Theatre Project. Anderberg received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Performance from Western Michigan University where she played Celia in As You Like It and Aunt Monie and The Medium in See What I Want to See. Together with Stephen Spencer, she is recipient of the 2012 Oldenburg MFA Scholarship. less appeared at Cleveland Play House as Sally and A Caroler in the world premiere production of A Carol for Cleveland, having also performed in CPH’s Roe Green Award-winning reading of Quiara Alegría Hudes’ Daphne’s Dive alongside such luminaries as David Zayas and Liza Colon-Zayas. For the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program,... more
Elynmarie Kazle: (Stage Coordinator) returns to Cleveland Play House where previous credits include New Play Readings of Daphne’s Dive, Silent Sky and Three Voyages of the Lobotomobile; Conviction; Eric Coble’s adaptation of Huck Finn; and the Case Western Reserve University/CPH MFA Acting Program production of All’s Well That Ends Well directed by Geoff Bullen. Elsewhere she’s stage managed at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Stockholm’s Stadsteater, The Old Globe, and The Pasadena Playhouse among others. A United States Institute for Theatre Technology Fellow, she’s served on USITT’s board of directors, created the Stage Management Mentoring Project and currently serves on the Board of the Ohio Valley Region. Locally she worked with Great Lakes Theater, Opera Columbus, and the Ohio Ballet. In 2001 she created a stage management mentoring program for Akron’s Firestone High School Visual and Performing Arts Program which continues today with 24 stage managers working various events throughout the year. less returns to Cleveland Play House where previous credits include New Play Readings of Daphne’s Dive, Silent Sky and Three Voyages of the Lobotomobile; Conviction; Eric Coble’s adaptation of Huck Finn; and the Case Western Reserve University/CPH MFA Acting Program production of All’s Well That Ends Well directed by Geoff Bullen.... more
First Annual Roe Green Award New Play Reading
May 5, The Helen
written by Quiara Alegrķa Hudes
directed by Laura Kepley
