Nilo Cruz
Nilo Cruz ( born 1960 in Matanzas, Cuba ) is a Cuban- American playwright who is both the most played Cuban-American playwright in the U.S. as well as for his play Anna in the Tropics 2003 as the first American playwright Hispano- American Race the Pulitzer Prize for drama received.
Life
Cruz fled with his parents in 1970 from Cuba to the U.S. and settled in Little Havana, the Cuban immigrant -dominated suburb of Miami. After school, he studied acting at the Miami -Dade Community College and later in New York City at the likewise derived from Cuba María Irene Fornés. On their intermediary, he completed a degree in Fine Arts from Brown University with Paula Vogel and graduated in 1994 with a Master of Fine Arts (MFA ) from.
He wrote with Night Train To Bolina 1994 his debut play and wrote in the following years, numerous other pieces, which made him become the most played Cuban-American playwright of the United States. In his dramas, he always leads back to his Cuban home, even if the action does not play there. He was dramaturg at the Theatre of Coral Gables 2001.
He had his greatest success with Anna in the Tropics, for which he was awarded in 2003 as the first Hispanic Pulitzer Prize for drama.
Besides his work as a playwright Cruz was temporarily working as a lecturer at Brown University, the University of Iowa and Yale University. For 2012, the premiere of the film Castro 's Daughter is provided, the screenwriter and producer he is.