MIGDALIA

Cruz is a Bronx-born, award-winning multi-platform playwright, lyricist, translator, and librettist of more than 60 works including: El Grito Del Bronx, Cigarettes & Moby-Dick, The Book of Miaou, & Frida, produced in venues such as BAM, Latino Chicago Theater Company, Mabou Mines, A.R.T., National Theater of Greece, Houston Grand Opera, Ateneo Puertorriqueño, & Teatro Vista. An alumna of New Dramatists, she received grants from Pregones/PRTT, the NEA, McKnight, NYFA, NYSCA, and Pew/TCG Foundations, and was named the 2013 Helen Merrill Distinguished Playwright. Migdalia was nurtured by Sundance, the Lark, & by Maria Irene Fornés at INTAR. She taught for the Fornés Playwriting Workshop, Princeton, and LaMaMa/Umbria. She is the current co-chair of the DGF Playwriting Fellows 2019-2021 with Lucy Thurber, a mentor to the NYC Latinx Playwrights Circle; and recently received a commission from Clubbed Thumb via NYSCA to write Fish Tank and INTAR to write Lives of the New Kind of Saints with composer, Cristian Amigo.

Recent Projects: lookinglass: some thoughts on day four @ PlanetConnections, June 2020; Meat & Other Broken Promises @Homebound 4th Edition, July 2020; Never Moscow workshopped at U. of Evansville, November 2020; Richard III translation (a PlayOn!Shakespeare Project) @TheatreSpace NorthEast (Sunderland, England), Summer 2020 and Macbeth in 2021; a geo-located performance in Battery Park, Lives of the New Kind of Saints @INTAR, November 2020. Her Macbeth translation can be heard in a podcast via ncpodcast.com, launched in April 2021, and will be presented in a staged reading by BlackGirlsLoveTheBard, October 2021. In June 2021, Yorick’s Last Laugh: a dead comedy jam wherein he spills the “T” about the Danish royal family premiered at Shakespeare Dallas. Macbeth was published by ACMRS Press, Arizona State/Tempe, 2021.

www.migdaliacruz.com