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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. [1]
Oct 14, 2018 · Nilo Cruz shot to national prominence in 2003 when he won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for his play Anna in the Tropics, a Depression–era tale Nilo Cruz about migrant Cubans working in a Tampa, Florida, cigar factory.
Oct 20, 2016 · Learn about the life and work of Nilo Cruz, a Cuban-American playwright who won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Anna in the Tropics. Discover how he creates poetic and lyrical plays, how he finds his characters, and how he teaches playwriting.
May 25, 2018 · Like Tennessee Williams’s operatic 1951 play, “The Rose Tattoo,” “Exquisita Agonía” is about a woman who finds life in death, and a dream of love made real by a man whose will to live ...
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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 ...
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.
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Jul 8, 2024 · Nilo Cruz. 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.