Meet Gretchen Suárez-Peña

Gretchen Suárez-Peña is a long-time playwright and lover of the theatre. She's a Puerto Rican playwright based in Central Florida. 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 in the Table Read Category at the Inaugural Be Original Festival 2019 in Orlando, Florida 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 piece Dry Spell at the 30 by Ninety Theatre in Mandeville, Louisiana in their Night of One Acts Competition in 2018. She also had success with her show Conversations in Bed, which premiered to a sold-out audience at the 2017 Tampa Bay Theatre Festival. Her short play, The Arithmetic of Memory, was produced in New York, Rockford, and Central Florida. A portion of her work is available to be read on the New Play Exchange.