Melinda Lopez is a playwright, actress and educator, currently living in Boston, MA. She is the inaugural playwright-in-residence at the Huntington Theatre Company and a past Huntington Playwriting Fellow. Her plays, which include Sonia Flew, Becoming Cuba, Caroline in Jersey, and Orchids to Octopi, among others, have been produced at venues including the Williamstown Theater Festival, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Laguna Playhouse and Central Square Theater. As an actress, she was recently seen in Appropriate at SpeakEasy Stage Company, and has previously appeared in Our Town, Persephone, A Month in the Country and The Rose Tattoo at the Huntington. She teaches theatre and performance at Wellesley College and playwriting at Boston University.