Nilo Cruz at the post-performance dicussion of A Bicycle Country at Dartmouth College, March 5, 2007

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Born in Matanzas, Cuba in 1960, Cruz immigrated to the "Little Havana" area of Miami in 1970 on a Freedom Flight, and eventually became a US citizen. His interest in theater began with acting and directing in the early 1980s. He studied theater first at Miami-Dade Community College, later moving to New York City, where Cruz studied under fellow Cuban María Irene Fornés. Fornes recommended Cruz to Paula Vogel who was teaching at Brown University. Cruz received his M.F.A. from Brown in 1994. In 2001, he served as the playwright-in-residence for the New Theatre in Coral Gables, Florida, where he wrote Anna in the Tropics, winner of the 2003 Pulitzer and the Steinberg Award for Best New Play. A year later it received its Broadway premiere with Jimmy Smits in the lead role. Matanzas is the capital of the Cuban Province Matanzas. ... Miami redirects here. ... Maria Irene Fornes (born 1930) is a Cuban-American playwright. ... Paula Vogel (born 16 November 1951, in Washington, D.C. to a Jewish father and a Christian mother) is an American playwright. ... Brown University is a private university located in Providence, Rhode Island. ... For other uses, see Brown (disambiguation). ... Nickname: Location in Miami-Dade County and the state of Florida Coordinates: , Country State County Miami-Dade Government  - Mayor Don Slesnick Area  - City 96. ... Anna in the Tropics is a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Nilo Cruz. ... Jimmy Smits as President Matt Santos on The West Wing. ...

Cruz's other plays include Betty and Gauguin, Dancing on Her Knees, A Park in Our House, Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams, A Bicycle Country, Night Train to Bolina, Two Sisters and a Piano, Beauty of the Father, and Lorca in a Green Dress. He has translated two plays by Federico García Lorca, Doña Rosita and The House of Bernarda Alba. He adapted a short story by Gabriel García Márquez into a children's play A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings. He also translated and adapted Pedro Calderón de la Barca's Life is a Dream which opened in February, 2007 at South Coast Repertory. Federico García Lorca Federico García Lorca (June 5, 1898 – August 19, 1936) was a Spanish poet and dramatist, also remembered as a painter, pianist, and composer. ... Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez, also known as Gabo (born March 6, 1927 in Aracataca, Colombia) is a Colombian novelist, journalist, editor, publisher, political activist, and recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. ... Pedro Calderón de la Barca. ... La vida es sueño (Life is a Dream) is a comedy written by Spanish playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca; it is perhaps his most well-known work. ... South Coast Repertory South Coast Repertory (SCR) is a professional theatre company located in Costa Mesa, California. ...

Some of the theatres that have developed and performed his works include New York’s Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, McCarter Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, The Alliance, New Theatre, and the Coconut Grove Playhouse. Nilo Cruz recently attended the opening night of a production of A Bicycle Country at Dartmouth College which opened on March 5, 2007. Following that performance he attended a post-performance discussion. The Public Theater is a New York City arts organization. ... The New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) is a non-profit off-Broadway theater in New York City. ... McCarter Theatre is a not-for-profit, professional company on the campus of Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. ... OSF Elizabethan Stage The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) is a regional repertory theatre in Ashland, Oregon, United States. ... The Alliance (a. ... New Theatre or New Theater may refer to: The New Theatre (Bromley), England The New Theatre (Cardiff), Wales The New Theatre (Coral Gables), Florida The New Theatre (Fort Smith), Arkansas The New Theatre (Budapest), Hungary The New Theatre (Ireland) The New Theatre (London) The New Theatre (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania The Century... The Coconut Grove Playhouse is a legitimate theater in Miami, Florida. ... Dartmouth College is a private, coeducational university located in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. Incorporated as Trustees of Dartmouth College,[6][7] it is a member of the Ivy League and one of the nine colonial colleges founded before the American Revolution. ...

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 and a Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays award. The National Endowment for the Arts is a United States federally funded program that offers support and funding for projects that exhibit artistic excellence. ... The Rockefeller Foundation (RF) is a prominent philanthropic organization based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... The Kennedy Center as seen from the Potomac River. ...

Cruz is an alumnus of New Dramatists, has taught playwriting at Brown University, the University of Iowa and atYale University. He presently lives in New York City. Brown University is a private university located in Providence, Rhode Island. ... Not to be confused with Iowa State University. ... Yale redirects here. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ...

External links

• Nilo Cruz present at Opening Night of "A Bicycle Country" at Dartmouth College, May 5 2007
• A January 2006 New Yorker review of Cruz's play "Beauty of the Father"
• Articles about Nilo Cruz and Anna in the Tropics at South Coast Repertory
• Dalleo, Raphael, and Elena Machado Sáez. "New Directions: The Post-Sixties Miami Imaginary." The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature.
• Nilo Cruz Interview by Beth Stevens on Broadway.com
• New Plays And Playwrights - Working in the Theatre Seminar video at American Theatre Wing.org, January 2004
• Bomb magazine interview
• Brown Alumni Magazine, "Poetry in Motion"
• Articles about Nilo Cruz and Life is a Dream at South Coast Repertory