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'''Nilo Cruz''' (born 1960) is a [[Cuban-American]] [[playwright]] and [[pedagogue]]. With his award of the 2003 [[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]] for his play, ''[[Anna in the Tropics]]'', he became the first Latino so honored.<ref>{{cite news | author=Hilton Als | title=Ghosts and Hosts: Two Troubled Households | url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/01/23/060123crth_theatre | work=The New Yorker | date=23 January 2006 | accessdate=2008-12-25}}</ref> Cruz is openly gay.<ref>{{cite web|first=Jonathan|last=Abarbanel|title=A Conversation with Playwright Nilo Cruz|url=http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/A-Conversation-with-Playwright-Nilo-Cruz/3243.html|website=Windy City Times|date=July 9, 2003|accessdate=August 30, 2018}}</ref>
'''Nilo Cruz''' (born 1960) is a [[Cuban-American]] [[playwright]] and [[pedagogue]]. With his award of the 2003 [[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]] for his play, ''[[Anna in the Tropics]]'', he became the first Latino so honored.<ref>{{cite news | author=Hilton Als | title=Ghosts and Hosts: Two Troubled Households | url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/01/23/060123crth_theatre | work=The New Yorker | date=23 January 2006 | accessdate=2008-12-25}


==Biography==
==Biography==

Revision as of 03:38, 4 October 2018

Nilo Cruz
Born1960 (age 63–64)
Matanzas, Cuba
OccupationPlaywright, pedagogue
NationalityCuban-American
Alma materMiami Dade College
Brown University
Notable worksTwo Sisters and a Piano
Notable awardsPulitzer Prize for Drama (2003)

Nilo Cruz (born 1960) is a Cuban-American playwright and pedagogue. With his award of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play, Anna in the Tropics, he became the first Latino so honored.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).

Cruz has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including two NEA/TCG National Theatre Artist Residency grants, a Rockefeller Foundation grant, San Francisco's W. Alton Jones award, a Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays award and a USA Artist Fellowship.

Cruz is a frequent collaborator with Peruvian-American Latin Grammy composer Gabriela Lena Frank. To date, they have completed a set of orchestral songs, La centinela y la paloma (The Keeper and the Dove), for soprano Dawn Upshaw and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra (premiered under the baton of Joana Carneiro in February 2011); The Saint Maker for soprano Jessica Rivera, mezzo-soprano Rachel Calloway, the San Francisco Girls Chorus, and the Berkeley Symphony in May 2013; and Journey of the Shadow for narrator and ensemble of eleven players (San Francisco Chamber Orchestra premiering in April 2013.

Cruz penned the libretto to composer Jimmy López's opera Bel Canto which had its world premiere at the Lyric Opera of Chicago on December 7, 2015.[1]

Cruz's most recent work is Bathing in Moonlight, a world premiere featuring Raul Mendez, Priscilla Lopez, Hannia Guillen, Frankie J. Alvarez, Michael Rudko, and Katty Velasquez. Directed by Emily Mann (It has incorrectly been stated that Emily Mann directed the world premier of "Anna in the Tropics." The world premier was directed by Rafael de Acha, artistic director of New Theatre, in Coral Gables, Florida. The following year, after being awarded the Pulitzer and Steinberg Awards, Emily Mann directed a production at the McCarter Theatre, which then was presented on Broadway.) Bathing in Moonlight is running September 9 - October 9, 2016 at McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ. Bathing in Moonlight is the recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award and a 2016 Greenfield Prize.

Cruz is an alumnus of New Dramatists, has taught playwriting at Brown University, the University of Iowa and at Yale University. He presently lives in New York City and Miami.

Awards and honors

In 2009, Cruz received the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a distinguished American playwright in mid-career.

Work

Plays

  • Dancing on Her Knees (1994)
  • Night Train to Bolina (1995)
  • A Park in Our House (1995)
  • Two Sisters and a Piano (1998)
  • A Bicycle Country (1999)
  • Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams (2001)
  • Anna in the Tropics (2002)
  • Lorca in a Green Dress (2003)
  • Capricho (2003)
  • Beauty of the Father (2006)
  • The Color of Desire (2010)
  • Hurricane (2010)
  • Soto Voce (2014)
  • Bathing in Moonlight (2016)
  • Exquisita Agonía (Exquisite Agony) (2018)[2]

Musicals

  • Havana – music by Frank Wildhorn, lyrics by Jack Murphy, book by Cruz

Translations

See also

References

  1. ^ "Bel Canto". Lyric Opera of Chicago. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
  2. ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/theater/exquisite-agony-review.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=thumb_square&state=standard&contentPlacement=9&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2018%2F06%2F11%2Ftheater%2Fexquisite-agony-review.html&eventName=Watching-article-click
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