Melinda Lopez

As a playwright, Lopez has produced a sizable body of work that spans the last two decades and has garnered a variety of awards.

[3] Lopez has also authored God Smells Like a Roast Pig (Women on Top Festival), The Order of Things (CentaStage), How do you Spell Hope?

[3] In 2009, she was commissioned by the National Institute of Health to author a work celebrating the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth, leading to her play From Orchids to Octopi, An Evolutionary Love Story.

[5] In 2013, Lopez was made the first ever playwright in residence at the Huntington Theatre thanks to a three-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Her play Becoming Cuba is set in 1897 Havana on the eve of the Spanish–American War,[7] Alexandros centers on a Cuban family in exile,[8] Sonia Flew is about a woman who was sent to the United States from Cuba as a child in 1961,[9] and her one-woman show Midnight Sandwich/Medianoche (previously titled God Smells Like a Roast Pig) deals explicitly with Lopez's own struggle with her Cuban heritage.