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PLAYWRIGHT
NILO CRUZ FINALIST FOR AMERICAN THEATER CRITICS’
ASSOCIATION AWARD
The American Theater Critics’
Association announced at the end of February, the
finalists for the Steinberg New Play award.
Jeff Daniels, John Walch, Jane Martin,
Craig Wright, Arthur Miller and South Florida’s
own Nilo Cruz are the six finalists for the prestigious
award. The winner will be announced during the weekend
of April 4, 2003 at Louisville’s notable Humana
Play Festival. The award carries a sizable cash prize,
in addition to the honor bestowed on the recipient.
Nilo Cruz’s play (for which
he is nominated) is ANNA IN THE TROPICS. The play
was commissioned by New Theatre and produced there
during the Coral Gables theatre’s 2002-2003
Season. Nilo Cruz was Playwright in Residence at New
Theatre during 2002. Cruz’s residency, the commissioning
of the play, and its subsequent production were supported
by The National Endowment for the Arts, Theatre Communications
Group, Vivendi Universal, The Ruthy and Manny Cohen
Foundation, and Jay Harris.
In receiving the news of Nilo Cruz’s
nomination, New Theatre’s Artistic Director
Rafael de Acha commented: “New Theatre is immensely
proud to have Miami’s Nilo Cruz as a member
of its family of playwrights. Along with South Florida’s
Mario Diament and Michael McKeever, Cruz is one of
a crop of exceptionally gifted dramatists who are
giving our theatre and, by extension, the South Florida
theatre community an ever-increasing reputation as
a breeding ground for great writers for the theatre.”
New Theatre has produced another Nilo
Cruz play: Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams, nominated
for a Carbonell award in 2001. During its 2003-2004
season New Theatre will produce the world premiere
of Nilo Cruz’s Beauty of the Father. Future
productions of Anna in the Tropics have been announced
by Chicago’s Tony award winner Victory Gardens
Theater, New Jersey’s McCarter Theater, and
California’s South Coast Rep.
Marzo
2003
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