Graduate Playwriting Program - Alumni - Melinda Lopez

Melinda Lopez
M.A., 2000

Midnight Sandwich/Media Noche
• Production at Coconut Grove Playhouse, Miami, FL, 1999-2000.
• Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Solo Performance, Boston, MA, 1999.

Miami Herald: "Lopez (in Midnight Sandwich/Medianoche) pulls us into a world that seems poignant, magical, forever alluring . . ."

Miami Herald: "In a series of vignettes that are loosely but deftly linked, the writer/performer serves up spicy perspectives on everything from revolutionary politics to lipstick, blending the serious with the silly in a piquant mix."

The Order of Things
• Production at Centastage Performance Group/Boston Playwrights' Theatre, 2000, supported by the Kennedy Center Fund for New Plays.

Boston Globe: "The Order of Thingsis not a political piece . . . what one comes away with is an appreciation of the variety of the Cuban-American experience."

• First Annual Kennedy Center Charlotte Woolard Award for "Most Promising New Voice in the American Theatre," 1999.

The Lesson
• Published in Boston Theater Marathon of Ten-Minute Plays (anthology) Baker's Plays, 2000
• Production at1st Annual Boston Theater Marathon, Boston, MA, 1999.

What the Market Will Bear
• Production at 2nd Annual Boston Theater Marathon, Boston, MA, 2000

Sonia Flew
• Production by the Huntington Theatre Company at the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 2004.

Several of her 10-minute plays have run in the Boston Theater Marathon. She's also written a piece for the Museum of Science on the big bang.

Awards
Won an Elliot Norton Award for her one-woman show "God Smells Like a Roast Pig."
An MCC Artist Grant recipient for "God Smells Like a Roast Pig."
Chosen to be one of four playwriting fellows given a Calderwood Playwriting Commission by the Huntington, 2004.