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	On Stage: Pulitzer-winning Nilo Cruz an appealing up and comer
		The theater world was startled April 7 when the $7,500 Pulitzer Prize for drama was awarded to Nilo Cruz's "Anna and the Tropics," a play few had ever heard of since it had not been seen in New York and had been staged only in a 100-seat theater in Miami.
		Cruz came to talk to the critics out of gratitude for the Steinberg, but of course it is the Pulitzer that has catapulted him into the big time.
		Cruz is the first Hispanic to win the drama Pulitzer (Fornes was a runner-up in 1990), and he has yet to write an Anglo character -- "Russians, yes." He says he starts a play with a behavior or just a name, clearing his mind with yoga and proceeding with visualization exercises.
	www.post-gazette.com /ae/20030618rawson0618fnp5.asp (670 words)

	BOMB Magazine: Nilo Cruz by Emily Mann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		From left: Tony Plana (Santiago), Geoffrey Ricas (Cheché), Julian Acosta (Juan Julian), Onahoua Rodriguez (Marela), Adriana Sevan (Conchita) and Karmin Murcela (Ofelia) in Nilo Cruz's Anna in the Tropics, South Coast Repertory, California, 2003.
		Nilo Cruz and I recently found an hour to sit down with a tape recorder in my office at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey.
		Anna in the Tropics, Nilo's latest play, had opened our new Roger S. Berlind Theatre a few weeks earlier, though we were still rehearsing and fine-tuning it before it moved to New York.
	www.bombsite.com /cruz/cruz.html (443 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- STAGING GROUND
		Cruz may, in fact, be the best thing to come along this millennium for the nation's deep, yet underemployed Latino acting pool.
		Nilo, an artist in bud, also hid his creative ambitions from his parents and others, never asking for the piano lessons he wanted, worried that his father might think him a "sissy." Living with four women gave him special access, he feels now, to the female sensibilities that figure so prominently in his plays.
		Cruz relishes the sweet irony that his play about listening was awarded the Pulitzer even though it had never been seen, "only read, because reading is a form of listening.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/features/20031006-9999_1c6cruz.html (1358 words)

	Two Sisters and a Piano by Nilo Cruz at Gershwin Theater
		The setting of Nilo Cruz's play Two Sisters and a Piano is stark, but the implications of this graceful work are far-reaching and will linger with you long after the curtain falls on this production, directed by Mary Beth Easley.
		After being dragged down several flights of stairs, Cruz Varela was taken outside of her apartment building and again beaten in front of a cheering mob, which included a group of schoolchildren trucked in for the occasion.
		Playwright Nilo Cruz was born in Matanzas, Cuba in 1961.
	www.brooklyn.cuny.edu /bc/spotlite/news/102004.htm (624 words)

	Washington Blade Online
		Nilo Cruz is the first Latino playwright to win a Pulitzer Prize for his work, âAnna in the Tropics,â which is currently playing in D.C., at Arena Stage.
		Although Cruz has been with women (he has a 16-year-old daughter), he definitely identifies as a gay man, and, for him, part of that means being aware of his own feminine side.
		Cruz’s newest play, “The Beauty of the Father,” explores a triangle between a bisexual father, his daughter, and the father’s ex-lover.
	washblade.com /2004/10-22/arts/theater (576 words)

	Online NewsHour: Forum -- Pulitzer Prize Winner Nilo Cruz
		Nilo Cruz, winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, takes your questions on his plays, playwriting and how winning the coveted prize may affect his life and work.
		Cruz, a young Cuban-American playwright, won the Pulitzer for his play "Anna in the Tropics".
		Cruz's plays have been produced at New York's Shakespeare Festival's Public Theatre, the New York Theatre Workshop, the Minneapolis Children's Theatre, the Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C., and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/forum/may03/cruz.html (390 words)

	‘Lorca in a Green Dress,’ by Pulitzer Prize-winning Nilo Cruz, is about a poet and dramatist killed in the Spanish ...
		Nilo Cruz’s phone hasn’t quit ringing since he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize earlier this month.
		Cruz says anybody who came away from the play without a sense of completion maybe felt just what he wanted them to feel.
		Cruz says he’s happy to be heading for yet another theater on the wrong side of the Hudson River.
	www.mailtribune.com /archive/2003/0421/local/stories/06local.htm (819 words)

	Nilo Cruz Biography
		Cruz, the son of Tina and Nilo Cruz, was born in Matanzas, Cuba, in 1961.
		A staunch opponent of the new communist government, Cruz’s father, a shoe salesman, was incarcerated in 1962 for opposing the increased militarization that resulted from Cuba’s ties with the Soviet Union.
		Cruz’s parents remained steadfast in their opposition to the Castro regime; they bought food on the fl market and...
	www.enotes.com /anna-tropics/70734 (190 words)

	Anna in the Tropics Study Guide by Nilo Cruz: Introduction
		Nilo Cruz first intended to set his play Anna in the Tropics in the 1800s, a time when lectors (readers) played an important role in cigar factories.
		Cruz, however, reconsidered and decided that a historical account would be "too complicated" to render dramatically, so he chose instead to focus on the role the lector played in the factories during a time when personal and financial independence were inextricably linked.
		Cruz also wanted to tell the story of Cubans who fled to the United States prior to the 1959 revolution.
	www.bookrags.com /studyguide-annatropics/intro.html (407 words)

	The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey
		Nilo's adaptation of A VERY OLD MAN WITH ENORMOUS WINGS represents a significant departure from the original Márquez story and therefore stands as a separate work of art for an entirely different medium.
		When Nilo Cruz's play Anna in the Tropics came across the desks of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize committee, it lacked one important element of its heavyweight competitors.
		Nilo Cruz's works are often lumped into the category of Magical Realism as well — but that's not entirely correct.
	www.njshakespeare.org /past/2004/wings_notes.html (1033 words)

	Yale Bulletin and Calendar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		One of the assets of teaching playwriting at Yale, Pulitzer Prize-winner Nilo Cruz observes, is taking the train between his home in Manhattan and New Haven.
		A native of Cuba, Cruz came to the United States at the age of nine.
		Cruz admits to a preference for the spoken word -- which, he says, is the reason he writes plays rather than novels.
	www.yale.edu /opa/v31.n26/story7.html (831 words)

	Finding Nilo: the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama, Nilo Cruz opens Anna in the Tropics in New York - ...
		Cruz's Pulitzer win was even more surprising since Anna hadn't been staged in New York.
		In crafting his tale about the power of art, love, and sexuality, Cruz was inspired by the Cuban lectores, whose job it was to read to the factory workers--a tradition that was also common in Tampa's Cuban factory neighborhood of Ybor City until the 1930s.
		Cruz is well aware of the dramatic changes Anna has created in his own life.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2003_Dec_9/ai_111850690 (763 words)

	Hispanic Magazine.com - June 2003 - Nilo Cruz
		Cruz means his cigar roller characters and their lector, but off-stage he shares their need.
		(Cruz is single and has a teenage daughter who lives in California with her mother.
		Cruz’s father, a former political prisoner in Cuba, sold shoes for a living and died in Miami four years ago.) “I wasn’t surprised at all that he won the Pulitzer,” Fleischmann adds.
	www.hispaniconline.com /magazine/2003/june/Features/nilo.html (1389 words)

	Hispanic Business - Cuban-born Playwright Awarded Pulitzer Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Nilo Cruz, a playwright who came to Miami on a Freedom Flight from Cuba at the age of 10, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama Monday for "Anna in the Tropics," a play that had its world premiere in October at tiny New Theatre in Coral Gables.
		Cruz, who was born in the Cuban city of Matanzas, grew up in Miami and discovered poetry at Melrose Elementary School, 3050 NW 35th St. He plunged into theater at Miami-Dade Community College's Wolfson Campus, becoming a member of Teresa María Rojas' Prometeo theater troupe.
		Cruz's sister Clara Martha, who lives with their mother in Westchester, was teaching Spanish at Hialeah Gardens Elementary School when the Pulitzer was announced.
	www.hispanicbusiness.com /news/newsbyid.asp?id=9970 (763 words)

	Nilo Cruz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Articles about Nilo Cruz and Anna in the Tropics at South Coast Repertory
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nilo_Cruz (270 words)

	The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: Nilo Cruz explores art, love and Lorca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Cruz won two major honors (a Pulitzer Prize and the ATCA/Steinberg Award) for his lyrical 2003 drama about Cuban workers in a Florida cigar factory, "Anna in the Tropics." And he received a flurry of national attention when "Anna" reached Broadway last fall.
		Offstage, Cruz also has a daughter (now a teenager) from a marriage that ended in divorce.
		He's working on the latest version with Rep artistic director Sharon Ott, who is staging "Beauty." Cruz praises her as "a smart, sensitive and passionate" collaborator, and is happy some of the cast members are veterans of his other plays.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/artsentertainment/2001909960_nilo23.html (796 words)

	Nilo Cruz steals all the limelight / The Miami Herald - CubaNet News - Noticias de Cuba / Cuba News
		Nilo Cruz steals all the limelight / The Miami Herald - CubaNet News - Noticias de Cuba / Cuba News
		Nilo Cruz, a Cuban-born, Miami-raised poet of the stage, became the first Hispanic-American playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama.
		Though Cruz was the year's most celebrated homegrown playwright, two others wrote strong new plays in 2003.
	www.cubanet.org /CNews/y03/dec03/22e6.htm (408 words)

	Nilo Cruz, el Primer Pulitzer Latino de Teatro
		Cruz llegó a Estados Unidos a la edad de 10 años procedente de su natal Cuba.
		Desde antes del Pulitzer, Cruz vive de su trabajo como hombre de teatro tanto por los derechos de autor como por su labor en la Universidad de Yale, donde imparte clases de drama.
		CRUZ.- He escrito obras que tienen que ver con Cuba, pero también están "El tren de medianoche a bolina", sobre dos niños latinoamericanos de los años 80, cuando las guerras civiles en Centroamérica, y "Lorca en un vestido verde", sobre García Lorca.
	www.contactomagazine.com /nilocruz1011.htm (909 words)

	Playbill Celebrity Buzz: PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Nilo Cruz
		In 2003, playwright Nilo Cruz was the stealth winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Anna in the Tropics.
		Despite his new found notoriety, Cruz continues to concentrate on writing, even if interviews (like this one) sometimes intrude, and he is occasionally forced to disconnect his phone.
		Nilo Cruz: It takes place in the south of Spain.
	www.playbill.com /features/article/83551.html (1202 words)

	Dallas Theater Center - Let Yourself Go
		For about a decade, Nilo Cruz's plays have been produced at some of the country's most respected regional theaters: San Francisco's Magic Theatre, the New York Theatre Workshop and Chicago's Victory Gardens Theatre, to name just a few.
		Cruz was born in Matanzas, Cuba, just after the revolution began.
		Cruz is careful to make sure that his characters are at the heart of his plays.
	www.dallastheatercenter.org /Page.aspx?Doc_ID=1295 (1076 words)

	El Nuevo Herald \| 09/28/2006 \| 'Dos hermanas y un piano' de Nilo Cruz dramas humanos de rebeldía política (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Y también es un homenaje a María Elena Cruz Varela, que estaba en prisión en Cuba cuando yo escribía la obra en Nueva York.
		Cruz Varela se reunió con Martha Velasco para contarle su experiencia y leer la obra que le pareció ''intensa, humana, con una propuesta estética de gran altura y de mucho vuelo.
		Esa primerísima actriz que es Marta Velasco --dice Cruz Varela-- interpreta una obra que no es biográfica: está dedicada a los que luchan por el derecho a ser y pagan un precio altísimo por defenderlo''.
	www.miami.com /mld/elnuevo/entertainment/fine_arts/15623215.htm (708 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews - "Beauty of the Father" in Southern Florida 1/18/04
		Carlos Orizondo and Ursula Freundlich are two constants in the relationship between Nilo Cruz and New Theatre.
		In the three works of Cruz we have seen at New Theatre, three themes are always constant: possession, romance, and most of all, love.
		If Nilo Cruz remains constant on giving us literature to stand the test of time, let us hope that De Acha and company will constantly entertain us with engaging productions like Beauty of the Father for years to come.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /regional/sfla/sfla2.html (898 words)

	Tropical Cruz: Nilo Cruz talks about the multiple productions of his Pulitzer Prize-winning play Anna in the Tropics. ...
		Nilo Cruz talks about the multiple productions of his Pulitzer Prize-winning play Anna in the Tropics.
		You might think that Nilo Cruz, having won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Anna in the Tropics, would consider the play to be a finished product.
		The novel serves as a catalyst for the actions of the factory workers, whose lives are affected by the powerful story and the presence of the handsome young lector who reads it to them.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm?int_news_id=3939 (1594 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2003015859 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Cruz celebrates the search for identity in a new land.
		Nilo Cruz is a young Cuban-American playwright whose work has been produced widely around the United States including the Public Theater (New York, NY), South Coast Repertory (Costa Mesa, CA), Magic Theatre (San Francisco, CA), Oregon Shakespeare Festival, McCarter Theater (Princeton, NJ) and New Theatre (Coral Gables, FL).
		Cruz teaches playwriting at Yale University and lives in New York City.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/cons041/2003015859.html (328 words)

	Nilo Cruz Play Anna in the Tropics Wins Pulitzer, Broadway.com Buzz
		Forty-two-year-old Cuban-American playwright Nilo Cruz has been awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Anna in the Tropics, becoming the first Latino to take the distinguished prize.
		Cruz, who lives in New York City, was on his way back from at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he teaches, when he learned via cell phone that he won the prize.
		Cruz credits the New Theatre in Florida for nurturing the work and giving it its premiere last year.
	www.broadway.com /gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?CI=26992 (570 words)

	village voice > theater > The Beauty of the Father by Michael Feingold
		The ghost of Federico García Lorca hangs heavily over all of today's Spanish-speaking playwrights, which is presumably why Nilo Cruz, in his first new work since the Pulitzer Prize—winning Anna in the Tropics, has chosen to exorcize it in the most aggressive way imaginable.
		Michael Greif hasn't helped by giving Cruz the kind of idiotic production in which Latino actors who can speak perfectly unaccented English affect thick "I weel keel heem" accents to show you how Spanish the characters are.
		Priscilla Lopez and Elizabeth Rodriguez bring some conviction to the absurd mess; their male counterparts are only OK. And Oscar Isaac's rendering of Lorca as a supercilious fop should probably be blamed on the playwright and director, both of whom ought to know better.
	www.villagevoice.com /theater/0602,feingold,71668,11.html (455 words)

	2003 Pulitzer Prizes - DRAMA, Biography
		Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger (left) presents Nilo Cruz with the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in Drama.
		Nilo Cruz is a young Cuban-American playwright whose work has been produced widely around the United States.
		Nilo 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.
	www.pulitzer.org /year/2003/drama/bio (82 words)

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