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Nilo Cruz 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 second Latino so honored, after Nicholas Dante .
Oct 20, 2016 · Since fleeing Cuba on a Freedom Flight in 1970, playwright Nilo Cruz has returned just once: in 1979, to visit sisters who initially remained behind. Though he resettled with his family in Miami at age nine, Cuba remains a central presence in Cruz’s work, from his physical settings, to his linguistic rhythms, to the subtle murmurs of magic ...
Oct 14, 2018 · Nilo Cruz Biography. Playwright. Born c. 1961, in Matanzas, Cuba; son of Nilo and Tina Cruz; married (divorced); children: Chloe Garcia–Cruz. Education: Attended Miami Dade College; Brown University, M.F.A., 1994.
Nilo Cruz is a young Cuban-American playwright whose work has been produced widely around the United States. His plays are many and include Night Train to Bolina, Dancing on her Knees, A Park in Our House, Two Sisters and a Piano, A Bicycle Country, Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams (World premiere at New Theatre 2001), Lorca in a Green Dress ...
May 25, 2018 · When Nilo Cruz was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, in 2003, for his seventh full-length play, “Anna in the Tropics,” it acknowledged a writer who was particularly attuned not only to atmosphere and...
Nilo Cruz is a Cuban-American playwright and the first Latino recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Born in Matanzas, Cuba, he immigrated to Miami, Florida in 1970, when he was around ten years old.
nilo cruz is the author of many plays, including a park in our house, a bicycle country, two sisters and a piano, lorca in a green dress, hortensia and the museum of dreams, dancing on her knees, night train to bolina, beauty of the father, a very old man ...
Sep 4, 2023 · Bathing in Moonlight (Baño de luna), a play about forbidden love by Pulitzer Prize winner Nilo Cruz (Anna in the Tropics, 2003), literally opens with a sermon illustration. Father Monroe, a Roman Catholic priest, is telling his congregation a story about inclusion and about removing the barriers, both societal and institutional, that separate ...
May 15, 2003 · Nilo Cruz: Pulitzer Prize Award Winner. Jeffrey Brown talks with Nilo Cruz, Pulitzer Prize winner for drama.
Playwright Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer prize-winning play, Anna in the Tropics (2002), explores the hopes and dreams of a Cuban-American family when their lives are upended by the arrival of a Cuban lector, who reads Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina to them as they work in their cigar factory.
