{"title":"Migdalia Cruz","role":null,"image":"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/roundabout-theatre-company\/image\/upload\/c_fill,g_auto,h_880,w_880\/f_auto\/q_auto\/v1733957166\/Headshots\/Refocus-Headshots\/Migdalia135?_a=BAAAV6DQ","lede":null,"content":"<p><strong>MIGDALIA CRUZ<\/strong>, the 2023 DGF Legacy Playwright, is a Bronx-born playwright, lyricist, translator, and librettist with over 60 works performed in 150 venues across 40 cities in 12 countries. Her awards include the NEA, McKnight, NYSCA, and TCG\/Pew, and she was named the 2013 Helen Merrill Distinguished Playwright. Cruz's mentor Mar\u00eda Irene Forn\u00e9s at INTAR and her residency at Latino Chicago nurtured her voice. She co-chairs the DGF Playwriting Fellows, mentors the Latinx Playwrights\u2019 Circle, was listed on The Kilroys Web 2023, and taught at Princeton, NYU, IU, and as founding member of the Forn\u00e9s Institute\u2019s Playwriting Workshop. Migdalia is an alumna of New Dramatists, and a member of The Tent, a theater for \u201cVintage\u201d playwrights. She was featured in: \u201cFifty Key Figures in Latinx and Latin American Theatre.\u201d Her recent essays and interviews appeared in the publications: \u201cShakespeare And Latinidad,\u201d \u201cDiasporic Journeys: Interviews with Puerto Rican Writers in the United States,\u201d \u201cA History of Latinx Performing Arts in the U.S.,\u201d \u201cThe Routledge Companion to Latin\u00e9 Theatre and Performance,\u201d and \u201cForn\u00e9s In Context.\u201d Her new anthology of plays \u201cThe Impossible Plays of Migdalia Cruz,\u201d debuted October 2024, published by Tripwire Harlot Press.<\/p>","website":"","alt":null}