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Gretchen Suárez-Peña
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Meet Gretchen Suárez-Peña

Gretchen Suárez-Peña (she/her) is a Puerto Rican playwright based in Central Florida. She is an MFA candidate in the Dramatic Writing program at Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama (Class of 2024).
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She is part of the Conch Shell Productions (NY) Artists Collective of Writers. She frequently works with 
 New Generation Theatrical (FL), Just Write! Lakeland (FL), the Latinx Playwright Circle (NY), and the Latiné Musical Theatre Lab (NY). She is currently the book writer for The Fairy's Tale (music and lyrics by Michael Mott).

Her piece Across the Atlantic opened the 2023 BIPOC Play Reading Series at the Straz Center in Tampa, Florida. 
Her short play, The Arithmetic of Memory, has been produced across the country and was published in the Stonecoast Review where it was nominated for a Pushcart Award in Drama (2021). It was the 2023 Gary Garrison National Ten-Minute Play Award winner for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF). Her one act, Wingman, was also recognized by KCACTF as a John Cauble Regional 2 Finalist.

Her musical, Melina: A Steampunk Musical Tragedy was an official selection of the 2020 Atlanta Musical Theatre Festival. Other successes include winning the writer's grant and best play at the 2019 Be Original Festival for her play, Trafficked. Also, winning best full-length play at the 2018 Tampa Bay Theatre Festival for her show Conversations in the Car, and first prize for her short play, Dry Spell, at the 30 by Ninety Theatre’s 2018 Night of One Acts Competition.  

A portion of her work is available to be read on the New Play Exchange and she is a proud member of the Dramatist Guild. 
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Plays by Gretchen

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        • Conversations at Dinner
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      • Across the Atlantic
      • Peaches and King
      • Searching for Abuelo
      • Melina >
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      • Sugar and Spice
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      • C'est La Vie
      • The Officer
      • Elective Amnesia
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      • The Arithmetic of Memory
      • Dry Spell
      • Tea Town
      • The Child Groom
      • Shadowed Arrangement
      • Love Letters
      • The Wind is Me
      • Clean and Bright
      • Practically Perfect
      • Moonwalker
      • El Malecon
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