Latino Chicago Theatre Company writer in residence Lark's Mexico/US Word Exchange Plays: Miriam's Flowers, FUR, SALT, Another Part of the House, Lucy Loves Me, Two Roberts, Satyricoño, Lolita de Lares, El Grito Del Bronx, Never Moscow
Notable awards
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Playwriting/Screenwriting (2016)
Helen Merrill Distinguished Playwright Award (2013) NEA; Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award; McKnight Fellowship, among others.
Website
migdaliacruz.com
Migdalia Cruz is a writer of plays, musical theatre and opera in the U.S. and has been translated into Spanish, French, Arabic, Greek, and Turkish.
Her works have been produced in venues as diverse as Playwrights Horizons in New York City, the Old Red Lion Theatre in London, Miracle Theatre in Portland, Oregon, Ateneo Puertorriqueño in San Juan, the National Theatre of Greece in Athens, and Houston Grand Opera.[1] Other venues around the world include: Mabou Mines, Classic Stage Company, INTAR, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Monarch Theater, En-Garde Arts, HOME, Shaliko Company, New York Shakespeare Festival's Festival Latino, Theatre For The New City, and the W.O.W. Cafe (New York); Ateneo Puertorriqueño (PR); National Theater of Greece (Athens); Foro Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (Mexico City); Vancouver Players (Vancouver, B.C.); Latino Chicago Theater Company (Chicago); American Repertory Theatre (Cambridge); Cleveland Public Theatre (Cleveland); Frank Theatre (Minneapolis); Théâtre d’aujourd hui (Montreal); American Music Theatre Festival (Philadelphia); Intersection for the Arts/LATA (San Francisco); and Cornerstone Theater Company (Los Angeles).[2]
Cruz is the recipient of numerous awards including the National Endowment for the Arts playwriting fellowship (in 1991 and 1995). In 1999, she was named the first Sackler Artist in the School of Fine Arts at the University of Connecticut where she worked on Featherless Angels her commissioned play about children in war torn countries. In 1995, her research took her to Cambodia (where she met with former child soldiers of the Khymer Rouge), Croatia (where she met Bosnian child refugees), and to Dharamsala, India, where she interviewed the Dalai Lama along with teenage members of the Tibetan refugee community.[3]
In December 2013, Cruz was awarded the New York Community Trust/Helen Merrill Distinguished Playwright's Award. She is a recipient of the Kennedy Center's Fund for New American Plays award for Another Part of the House (1996). In 1994, she was the PEW/TCG National Artist-in-Residence at Classic Stage Company in New York. She was a McKnight Fellow in 1988.[4]
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