CQ Quintana

About

CQ Quintana [pronouns: any] is a queer nonbinary writer with Cuban blood and New Orleans roots based on Canarsee and Munsee Lenape land in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. Across genres, CQ’s writing centers on human connection and proclaims: you are not alone. Developed and produced nationwide, CQ’s plays include End of Play (INTAR/NYSCA NewWorks Lab Commission), The Genderless Play Experiment (Carthage College New Play Initiative), Beastgirl, based on the chapbook by Elizabeth Acevedo with music by Janelle Lawrence (Kennedy Center), AZUL (Diversionary Theatre), Scissoring (INTAR), Evensong (Astoria Performing Arts Center), Enter Your Sleep (Yale Cabaret), and more. In 2024, Life Jacket Theatre Company selected CQ to develop a new verbatim play on trans joy (Joyful Joyfriends) as the company’s inaugural Trans+ Playwriting Commission recipient and Audible named their audio play The 126-Year-Old Artist (available via Audible) one of the “8 Best Theater Listens” of the year. CQ is the recipient of grants, fellowships, and residencies from The Outrage, NYSCA, Café Royal Cultural Foundation, MacDowell, Playwrights Realm, Van Lier New Voices, Queer|Art, and Lambda Literary, among others. Television writing credits include AMC’s Orphan Black: Echoes, Fox’s Alert: Missing Persons Unit (Season 2 and 3), and ABC’s The Baker and the Beauty. CQ's creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry is published in Foglifter, Third Coast, Jacar Press, BOMB Magazine, Broadway.com, and more. The first season of their scripted middle grade scripted podcast series co-created with Rebecca Cunningham, Ghost Tour (Cordelia Studios), is available wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts, and Prosebuds, a monthly Substack featuring CQ's serialized fiction and showcasing the multi-genre writing community remains free for all readers and subscribers. For more, visit www.cquintana.com or @cquintanatown