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Migdalia Cruz
MIGDALIA CRUZ is a Bronx-born, award-winning playwright, lyricist, translator, and librettist of more than 60 works including: El Grito Del Bronx, Cigarettes & Moby-Dick, Miriam’s Flowers, Dreams of Home, The Book of Miaou, Lolita de Lares, Song For New York: the Bronx Rocks, & Frida, produced in venues such as BAM, Latino Chicago Theater Company, Mabou Mines, African-American Shakespeare Project, Actors Shakespeare Project, A.R.T., National Theater of Greece, Houston Grand Opera, Ateneo Puertorriqueño, & Teatro Vista. An alumna of New Dramatists, she received grants from the NEA, McKnight, Sackler, NYFA, NYSCA, the Kennedy Center’s Fund for New American Plays, and Pew/TCG Foundations, and was named the 2013 Helen Merrill Distinguished Playwright. Migdalia was nurtured by Sundance, the Lark, & María Irene Fornés at INTAR. Most recently, she taught for the Fornés Playwriting Workshop, Brown, Yale, Princeton, and LaMaMa/Umbria. Her plays and monologues have been published by NoPassport Press, TCG, U. of Arizona Press, Routledge Press, Penguin Books, Arte Publico Press, Applause Books, Smith & Kraus Publishers, and Third Woman Press, among others.
She is the current co-chair of the DGF Playwriting Fellows 2020-21 with Lucy Thurber, and is a mentor to the NYC Latinx Playwrights Circle. In 2020, she received commissions from Nylon Fusion; Planet Connections: Love & Kindness in the Time of Quarantine; The Homebound Project’s Fourth Edition; Clubbed Thumb/NYSCA; The Flea; and INTAR. Her translations of Macbeth & Richard III, for Play On! have been inspiring journeys, from the Isle of Iona to Leicester’s Cathedral, with U.K. actress/dramaturg, Ishia Bennison, and dramaturg/producer Lue Douthit.
2020 Projects: What If Under The Bed...? @NyLonFusion(NYC), March 2020; Looking-Glass: Some Thoughts on Day 74, PlanetConnections (NYC-Zoom), July 2020; Meat and other Broken Promises @The Homebound Project (NYC-Zoom), July 2020; Richard III translation (a PlayOn!Shakespeare Project) @TheatreSpace NorthEast in Sunderland, England, Summer 2020; Lives of the New Kind of Saints: a geo-located theater/sound piece with music/sound design by Cristian Amigo @INTAR (NYC), November 2020. Her essay “It’s Free On Wednesdays...” was recently published in Theater Artists Making Theatre With No Theater, ed. Sheila Callaghan, Kelly Miller, and Meg Miroshnik, Tripwire Harlot Press, Spring 2020, to benefit Artists in need at tripwireharlot.com/relief. 
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