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Awarded to
"Anna in the Tropics" by Nilo Cruz.
The play was commissioned by New Theatre
with the support of a grant from The National Endowment
for the Arts. Nilo Cruz was playwright-in-residence
at New Theatre during the 2001-2002 season, and his
residency was supported by a grant from Theatre Communications
Group, Vivendi Universal, and The National Endowment
for the Arts. Nilo Cruz wrote the play to be premiered
at New Theatre during this season (2002-2003). The
production will receive additional support from Jay
Harris, and from The Manny and Ruthy Cohen Foundation.
ANNA IN THE TROPICS is a play set
in Ybor City, (Tampa), Florida in 1930. The romantic
drama deals with a family of cigar makers whose loves
and lives are played out against the backdrop of America
in the midst of the Depression.
Nilo Cruz is a young Cuban-American
playwright whose work has been produced widely around
the United States. His plays are many and include
Night Train to Bolina, Dancing on her Knees, A Park
in Our House, Two Sisters and a Piano, A Bicycle Country,
Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams (World premiere
at New Theatre 2001), Lorca in a Green Dress, Beauty
of the Father, and translations of Lorca's Doña
Rosita the Spinster and The House of Bernarda Alba.
Nilo has been the recipient of numerous
awards and fellowships, including two NEA/TCG National
Theatre Artist Residency grants, a Rockefeller Foundation
grant, San Francisco's W. Alton Jones award and a
Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays award.
His work has been seen at the McCarter Theatre in
New Jersey, at New York's Shakespeare Festival's Public
Theatre, at South Coast Rep, at the Alliance Theatre
in Atlanta, New York Theatre Workshop, Magic Theatre,
Minneapolis Children's Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare
Festival, Washington's Studio Theatre, Florida Stage,
The Coconut Grove Playhouse, and at New Theatre, where
his Ybor City (working title) will receive its world
premiere in October of 2002, and where he is Playwright-in-Residence.
- Linda Winer, drama critic, Newsday
(chair)
- Misha Berson, drama critic, The
Seattle Times
- Dominic Papatola, chief drama critic,
St. Paul Pioneer Press
- Bruce Weber, theater critic, The
New York Times
- Edwin Wilson, professor and director,
Martin E. Segal Theater Center, CUNY
Pulitzer.org
Abril
2003
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