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 rom-com musical set in the San Fernando Valley (Los Angeles for you non-locals!) about ALEJANDRA, an accountant who longs to be the perfect immigrant daughter for her parents JOAQUIN and ROSA - even if it means staying in the closet forever. When a rent hike threatens to close her parent’s American-style donut shop for good, ALEJANDRA, with the help of mysterious new customer MEGAN, open CAFÉ CON LECHE, a Latino-themed coffee spot, to moonlight after-hours at the donut shop to make extra money. As her feelings for CAFÉ CON LECHE and MEGAN grow, ALEJANDRA begins to question just how much she’s willing to hide to keep her parent's love.
