CQ Quintana

CQ Quintana is a queer non-binary 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.” Their plays have been produced nationwide with INTAR, Diversionary, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Kennedy Center, and beyond. Their television writing credits include AMC’s Orphan Black: Echoes, Fox’s Alert: Missing Persons Unit (seasons 2 and 3), and ABC’s The Baker and the Beauty.

In 2024, Life Jacket Theatre Company selected CQ to develop a verbatim play on trans+ joy, Joyful Joyfriends, as the company’s inaugural Trans+ Playwriting Commission recipient. Audible named their audio play The 126-Year-Old Artist (available on Audible) one of the “8 Best Theater Listens” of the year. CQ’s prose, poetry, and hybrid writing is featured in Foglifter, Third Coast, Jacar Press, and BOMB Magazine, among others. CQ is the recipient of grants and fellowships from NYSCA, Café Royal Cultural Foundation, MacDowell, Van Lier New Voices, Queer Art, and Lambda Literary, among others.