NILO CRUZ (1960 - )
| Nationality: | Cuban American |
| Literary Agent: *: | |
| Email: | n/a |
| Website: | n/a |
* If shown, click on the literary agent's name for full contact details and links to all the Playwrights they represent.
Plays by Nilo Cruz
Anna in the Tropics |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||
| Company: | Out of the Box Productions | |||
| 1st Published: | Theatre Communications Group | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama | ||||
Synopsis: A poignant and poetic new play set in 1929 Florida in a Cuban-American cigar factory, where cigars are still rolled by hand and "lectors" are employed to educate and entertain the workers. The arrival of a new lector is a cause for celebration, but when he begins to read aloud from Anna Karenina, he unwittingly becomes a catalyst in the lives of his avid listeners, for whom Tolstoy, the tropics and the American dream prove a volatile combination. | ||||
Ay, Carmela! |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||
| Company: | Out of the Box Productions | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jose Sanchis Sinisterra. Translation By Nilo Cruz & Catalino Botello | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
Beauty Of The Father |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | 2007 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: We are all familiar with the love triangle but in Beauty of the Father Nilo Cruz introduces an unrequited love pentangle crossing two generations and the ghost of Federico Garcia Lorca. | ||||
Bicycle Country, A |
| 1st Produced: | Florida Stage | 1999 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Lyrical Drama | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Three characters whose lives seem to be moving nowhere set out to build a dream, even if that dream seems perilous. This stirring portrait of three Cuban exiles and their harrowing journey across the Caribbean Sea examines the universal themes of freedom and oppression, hope and survival. | ||||
Dancing On Her Knees |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1996 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Comedy drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: on "All Souls" day a dreamy transvestite rumbas against the grip of death in the times of AIDS | ||||
Graffiti |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: | ||||
Hortensia And The Museum Of Dreams |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Lyrical Drama | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A brother and a sister, whose lives were forever altered when their mother put them on a flight from Havana to the United States in 1961, return to their native land during the Popes visit to Cuba. The brother and sister take their own path, as they search for recollection and healing. This tale of estranged siblings seeking to make sense of the childhood that was subtracted from their lives possesses an imaginative and lyrical landscape that elevates the material to a poetic universality. | ||||
Lorca in a Green Dress |
| 1st Produced: | Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, OR | 2003 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | 1 woman flamenco dancer/singer | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Lorca in purgatory, re-exploring the meaning of his life | ||||
Night Train TO Bolina |
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco | 1994 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Lyrical Drama | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: The play is set in Latin America in the mid-eighties, in an unidentified country, during the guerilla warfare. Threatened by starvation and abuse, two children flee their rural village for the city. Dancing on a fine line between innocent fantasy and harsh reality, Mateo and Clara explore their imaginations in a world of dark mysticism and denied love. | ||||
Park In Our House, A |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1995 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
Two Sisters And A Piano |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1998 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Lyrical Drama | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Set in 1991, during the Pan American Games in Havana and while the Russians are pulling out of Cuba, this play portrays two sisters, Maria Celia, a novelist, and Sofia, a pianist, serving time under house arrest. Passion infiltrates politics when a lieutenant assigned to their case becomes infatuated with Maria Celia, whose literature he has been reading. | ||||
Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, A |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2002 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||