Nilo Cruz
Cuban-American playwright who became the first Latino writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama with Anna in the Tropics. His lyrical plays explore Cuban exile culture with a poetic sensibility rooted in Garcia Lorca and Chekhov. His work bridges the Cuban theatrical tradition and American playwriting.
Works
- Anna in the TropicsCuban immigrant reads Chekhov aloud in a cigar factory
- Two Sisters and a PianoPolitical prisoners separated by a piano face repression and desire
- Night Train to BolinaImmigrant family navigates displacement and memory on Cuban rails
- Dancing on Her Knees
- A Very Old Man with Enormous WingsMagical realist adaptation of García Márquez's surreal Latin American tale