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NILO CRUZ (Playwright) received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his Broadway debut Anna in the Tropics. His other works include Lorca in a Green Dress, Night Train to
Bolina, A Bicycle Country, Dancing on Her Knees, A Park in Our House, Two Sisters and a Piano and Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams. Cruz is one of this country's most produced Cuban-American writers; his work has been developed and performed at McCarter Theatre Center, NYSF/Public Theater, NY Theatre Workshop, New Theatre (Coral Gables), South Coast Repertory (Costa Mesa), Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Florida Stage, the Alliance (Atlanta), the Studio Theatre (Washington D.C.), Magic Theatre (San Francisco), Victory Gardens (Chicago), Coconut Grove Playhouse (Miami), the Children's Theatre of Minneapolis, Lee
Strasberg Theatre (L.A.) and Salt Lake Acting Company. He has held residencies at McCarter, the Public and New Theatre in Miami. An alumnus of New Dramatists, Cruz has taught playwriting at Brown
University and the Yale School of Drama. Other awards: the 2003 American Theatre Critics/Steinberg New Play Award, TCG Artist in Residence Grant, the Alton Jones Award, AT&T Award, Barrie Stavis Award, Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild. Beauty of the Father received its world premiere at
Miami's New Theatre and had a subsequent production at Seattle’s New Theatre. |
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MICHAEL GREIF (Director) Most recent works include Noah Haidle's Mr. Marmalade at Roundabout Theatre Company, Neal Bell’s Spatter Pattern at Playwrights Horizons and Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard at The Williamstown Theatre Festival. Broadway: Jonathan Larson’s Rent (Obie Award, Tony Nomination) and Never Gonna Dance. New York Shakespeare Festival credits include: Suzan Lori-Parks’ Fucking A; Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters (Obie Award); Jose Rivera’s Marisol
Pericles; Connie Congdon’s Casanova; Tony Kushner’s A Bright Room Called Day; and Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal (Obie Award). At New York Theatre Workshop (current artistic associate), he directed Cavedweller; Bright Lights, Big
City and the original production of Rent. Other Off Broadway credits include Neil Labute’s The Distance From Here at Manhattan Class Company; Betty Rules at The Zipper Theater; A Few Stout Individuals by John Guare at Signature Theatre and Monster at Classic Stage Company. Regional credits include work at La Jolla
(Artistic Director 1995-1999): Our Town; Sweet Bird Of Youth; Diana Son’s Boy; Randy Newman’s Faust (also at Goodman); Kushner’s Slavs (also at Mark Taper); Bell
’s Therese Raquin. At Williamstown Theater Festival: Guare’s Landscape Of The Body; Once In A Lifetime; Street Scene; Tonight at 8:30 and The Seagull. |
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The creative team also features:
Mark Wendland (Set Design)
Miranda Hoffman (Costume Design)
Jim Ingalls (Lighting Design)
Darron L. West (Sound Design)
Deborah Hecht (Dialect Coach)
Rick Sordelet (Fight Director) |
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