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Nilo Cruz
From: Matanzas, Cuba; Miami, Florida. LA Opera: he is the librettist of The Five Moons of Lorca (a 2020 Digital Short) and The Last Dream of Frida and Diego (2023).
In 2003, Nilo Cruz won the Pulitzer Prize for his play Anna in the Tropics, for which he also received a Tony Award nomination. His numerous awards include those from the Kennedy Center Fund, American Theatre Critics and the Humana Festival for New American Plays; as well as grants from the NEA and the Rockefeller Foundation. His plays include Dancing on Her Knees, A Park in Our House, Two Sisters and a Piano, A Bicycle Country, Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams, Lorca in a Green Dress, Beauty of the Father, Hurricane and A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings. His work has been seen at South Coast Rep, Mark Taper Forum, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Washington D.C.’s Studio Theatre and New York’s Public Theater; and around the world. He wrote the libretti for The Conquest Requiem and The Santos Oratorio for Gabriela Lena Frank and for Jimmy López’s Bel Canto for Lyric Opera of Chicago.
In 2003, Nilo Cruz won the Pulitzer Prize for his play Anna in the Tropics, for which he also received a Tony Award nomination. His numerous awards include those from the Kennedy Center Fund, American Theatre Critics and the Humana Festival for New American Plays; as well as grants from the NEA and the Rockefeller Foundation. His plays include Dancing on Her Knees, A Park in Our House, Two Sisters and a Piano, A Bicycle Country, Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams, Lorca in a Green Dress, Beauty of the Father, Hurricane and A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings. His work has been seen at South Coast Rep, Mark Taper Forum, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Washington D.C.’s Studio Theatre and New York’s Public Theater; and around the world. He wrote the libretti for The Conquest Requiem and The Santos Oratorio for Gabriela Lena Frank and for Jimmy López’s Bel Canto for Lyric Opera of Chicago.