Nilo Cruz
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Nilo Cruz (born 1962[citation needed]) is a Cuban-born American playwright, who won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in drama as well as the American Theatre Critics/Steinberg Award for his play Anna in the Tropics. He was the first Latino playwright to receive a Pulitzer Prize, and Anna in the Tropics was only the second play to receive one not having been seen in New York.
His other plays include Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams, Dancing on Her Knees, A Bicycle Country, Night Train to Bolina, A Park in Our House, Two Sisters and a Piano, Beauty of the Father, and Lorca in a Green Dress. In addition, he has also translated two plays by Federico García Lorca: Doña Rosita and The House of Bernarda Alba. 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, Florida Stage, The Alliance, The Studio Theatre, New Theatre, Coconut Grove Playhouse and the Children’s Theatre of Minneapolis.
Cruz is a former member of New Dramatists, has taught playwriting at Brown University and teaches playwriting at Yale University.
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