BIOGRAPHY
Melinda Lopez
Melinda Lopez (she/ella) is the recipient of the 2019 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Achievement, recognizing her twenty-year career in theater. She is a multiple-award-winning playwright and performer. Pandemic work includes the audio series Dream Boston and the Zoom play Black Beans Project (co-created with Joel Perez). Plays include: Mala (available on Audible in Spanish and English), Yerma (adaptation), Becoming Cuba, Sonia Flew, and many others. Lopez also performs on stage, radio, and in film. She was mentioned by President Obama in his speech to the Cuban and American people in 2016. Mayor Marty Walsh declared October 29, 2016, “Melinda Lopez Day” in the City of Boston. She is currently the Artist-in-Residence at the Huntington Theatre Company and a professor at Northeastern University. She occasionally sleeps outside in the Four Corners region, has a big yellow dog, and plays a little ukulele.