Hudes and McKeown's musical Miss You Like Hell will have its New York premiere at The Public Theater in March 2018. (Off-Broadway). The musical had its world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse in the fall of 2016 (California). Hudes' work often deals with both human interest stories as well as more specifically cultural topics relevant to Hispanic Americans. Target readership might be as broad as anyone with an interest in theatre, as well as any Hispanic/Latino-leaning organizations or academic curricula. Quiara Alegría Hudes is an award-winning playwright with mass contemporary appeal. Hudes' play Daphne's Dive, premiered in 2016 at Signature Theater (Off-Broadway) Hudes' play, Water by the Spoonful, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2012. She is best known for writing the book to the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights.

She collaborated with Lin-Manuel Miranda, the lyricist, composer and star of In the Heights, who also wrote and starred in the current Broadway phenomenon, Hamilton. Water by the Spoonful is the second part of her critically-acclaimed three-play cycle, which also includes Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue and The Happiest Song Plays Last. She was named a Fellow by United Stated Artists in 2010. She wrote the children's book In My Neighborhood, published in 2010. Hudes is a Playwright in Residence at Signature Theatre in New York Profile Theatre in Portland, OR dedicated their entire 2017 season to her work She is a Distinguished Professor at Wesleyan University Erin McKeown is an American multi-instrumentalist and folk-rock singer-songwriter. McKeown performs regularly, spending much of her time touring throughout the world with artists such as Ani DiFranco, Josh Ritter, the Indigo Girls, Martin Sexton, Andrew Bird, Thea Gilmore, Melissa Ferrick, Allison Miller, and others.