Maiga Vidal
2025 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. She aims to create more diversity in theatre by writing original works centering women, queer, Latine, and immigrant stories. Vidal is currently pursuing her MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from New York University, Tisch and will graduate this May. She was selected as one of the 100 up-and-coming musical theatre writers for the 2024 Rooftop Writers Initiative with Merrily We Roll Along on Broadway, the Stephen Sondheim Foundation, and the Jonathan Larson Grant. She is a proud member of the Dramatist Guild of America, the MAESTRA and RISE Directories, and Theatre West in Los Angeles. Passionate about showing "how it's made", she shares Café con Leche's development from page to stage in her original YouTube vlog series, Writing a Musical!. Everywhere online @maigavidal
Project
CAFÉ CON LECHE is an original romantic comedy musical about Alejandra, an accountant deep in the closet, who works at her parents’ 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, opens up Café con Leche, a secret LA-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 starts 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 choosing joy and love is how we survive day to day.
