Lileana Blain-Cruz

Lileana Blain-Cruz

Director, Henry IV, Part One

In one season at OSF: Much Ado about Nothing

Other theatres: New York: Suzan-Lori Parks’ The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World AKA The Negro Book of the Dead (Signature Theatre); Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ War (Lincoln Center); Alice Birch’s Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again (Soho Rep); Lucas Hnath’s Red Speedo (New York Theater Workshop); a devised production of SALOME (JACK and LMCC) Mary Zimmerman’s Arabian Nights (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival); Christina Anderson’s Hollow Roots (Under the Radar Festival, The Public Theater); The Bakkhai (Bard College). Regional: world premiere, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ War (Yale Repertory Theatre). Upcoming: The Bluest Eye (Guthrie Theater); Water by the Spoonful (Mark Taper Forum). 

Dance: A Guide to Kinship and Maybe Magic, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and choreographer Isabel Lewis (Dance New Amsterdam). 

Other credits: Lincoln Center Directors Lab and the 2050 Directing Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop. 

Awards and Honors: Julian Milton Kaufman Memorial Prize and the Pierre-André Salim Prize for leadership and directing (Yale School of Drama); Allen Lee Hughes Directing Fellow (Arena Stage). 

Education: MFA, Yale School of Drama.