Migdalia Cruz, award-winning playwright and lyricist, and Erica Fae, filmmaker, performer, and Yale faculty member will join The Actors Center’s Resident Company this spring for a series of artist development workshops focused on writing and movement.
Migdalia Cruz is a Bronx-born, award-winning, multi-platform, playwright, lyricist, translator, and librettist of more than 60 works for stage, radio, film, TV, and podcast, performed in 150 venues in 40 cities in 12 countries. An alumna of New Dramatists, her awards include: NEA, McKnight, NYSCA, TCG/Pew, and she was named the 2013 Helen Merrill Distinguished Playwright. MarÃa Irene Fornés nurtured her at INTAR and Latino Chicago gave her a home as their playwright-in residence. She is a master teacher of playwriting with the Fornés Institute, various universities, and professional theater schools. She was co-chair of the DGF Playwriting Fellows 2020-21; mentors the NYC Latinx Playwrights Circle; and was recently commissioned by Clubbed Thumb, The Flea, INTAR, and Kitchen Dog (Dallas).
2021-23 productions: Selections from Telling Tales (Ratones, Arena, Jesús & Fuego) in Spanish, with performer, director, Elisa Bocanegra in MedellÃn Colombia; Macbeth & Fishtank @Magic Theatre in a workshop with The Blueprint and PlayOnShakespeare, April 2023; Macbeth translation @Shakespeare In Detroit, August 2023; Dinner With Dee @Kitchen Dog (Dallas), June 2022; a PlayOnShakespeare translation of Macbeth (Sunderland, England) @TheatreSpaceNorthEast, Aug 2021, and in 2022@USD/Old Globe (San Diego), and is now a podcast @Next Chapter Podcasts; Yorick’s Last Laugh @Shakespeare Dallas, 2021. Her translations of Macbeth & Richard III were published by ACMRS Press. Migdalia was featured in Fifty Key Figures in LatinX and Latin American Theatre, published by Routledge, February 2022.
Writer, director, performer, and teacher Erica Fae brings radical stories from history to stage and screen. Her first feature To Keep the Light (inspired by women lighthouse keepers in the 1860’s) won the Fipresci Prize, among other festival awards, and is currently on Amazon Prime. Her original plays include A Girl Joan, Saved Again and by Him, and Take What Is Yours (with Jill A. Samuels).
As actor, she’s had recurring roles on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire and Doll & Em, Netflix’s Partner Track, and has performed in numerous films and plays. Erica also teaches Physical Acting at Yale’s David Geffen School of Drama, and is in development on her second feature film.
