Melinda Lopez (she/her) is a playwright and performer. She is the recipient of the 2019 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Achievement, and she was a member of the Mellon Foundation’s National Playwrights Residency Program and the Playwright-in-Residence at the Huntington Theatre Co. Recent plays include: Stir, (Writer/Performer, Old Globe Theatre) Mala, (Arts Emerson, The Guthrie Theatre, the Huntington Theatre Company, Old Globe, and others) available to download on Audible in both Spanish and English; Mr. Parent, Lyric Stage Co., Hartford Theatreworks, Geva Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Yerma Adaptation, Huntington Theatre Co. Currently she is working on a commission for LAUNCHPAD, Standing Still: Other plays: Becoming Cuba, (Huntington Theatre Co) and Sonia Flew (Huntington Theatre, Steppenwolf, and many others.) Her plays have been translated into Spanish (SER CUBA and SONIA SE FUE) and been seen in Cuba, Canada and South Korea.
Melinda was mentioned by President Obama in his historic speech to the Cuban people. Mayor Marty Walsh declared October 29, 2016 “Melinda Lopez Day in the city of Boston.
