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Columbia University School of the Arts.
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Migdalia Cruz
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Cruz is the recipient of numerous awards including the National Endowment for the Arts playwriting fellowship (in 1991 and 1995). In 1999, she was named the first Sackler Artist in the School of Fine Arts at the University of Connecticut and was commissioned to write a play about children in war. Her research took her to Cambodia, Tibet, and Bosnia where she sought out stories by interviewing children.
She is a recipient of the Kennedy Center"s Fund for New American award for Another Participant of the House (1996).
In 1994, she was the Philosophy East West/TCG National Artist in Residence. She was a McKnight Fellow in 1988.
Cruz" writing is known for its bold poetic crispness, violence and sexuality. Her themes are drawn from Latino history and her personal experiences of growing up in the South Bronx.
Cruz received her Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University, and is an alumna of New Dramatists.
From 1985 to 1988, Cruz was a playwright in residence at Latino Chicago Theater Company. Cruz also worked with Maria Irene Fornes"s Playwright"s Laboratory, a professional workshop for Latino writers in New York City. Cruz was profoundly influenced by Fornes and expressed her gratitude in "A Double Haiku for Irene Because She Detests the Ordinary From Her Eternal Fan, Migdalia:".
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