Maiga Vidal
2024 HEAR US Awardee
Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Class of 2025
MAIGA VIDAL is a Chilean-born, Los Angeles-raised musical theatre writer and content creator. Her musicals include CAFÉ CON LECHE and STAR SIGNS. Vidal is currently pursuing her MFA in Musical Theatre Writing at NYU Tisch with an anticipated graduation date of Spring 2025. Her goal is to create more diversity in theatre, both by writing new works centering marginalized voices and by demystifying the musical theatre writing process by sharing it from page to stage online in her original vlog series, WRITING A MUSICAL!.
Project
CAFÉ CON LECHE is an original romantic comedy musical about Alejandra, an accountant deep in the closet, who works at her parent’s mom-and-pop donut shop, California Cappuccino Donut Coffee. When the bank threatens to foreclose on her parents’ American dream, Alejandra, with the help of charming and unconventional social media manager, Megan, open up Café con Leche, a secret Latino-themed coffee spot to run after-hours at the donut shop in order to make ends meet. As her success with Café con Leche and her feelings for Megan begin to grow, Alejandra begins to question just how much she’s willing to hide to keep her parents’ love.
A story set amidst the chaos of LA traffic and the need for morning coffee, CAFÉ CON LECHE explores the cycle between daughters who fail their mothers, mothers who would rather be right than happy, and how love, both romantic and familial, are the biggest weapons we have to fight against the trauma and strife that we endure every day to survive.