Lileana Blain-Cruz

LILEANA BLAIN-CRUZ is a director from New York City and Miami. As Resident Director of Lincoln Center Theater her credits include Candrice Jones’ Flex, Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth (Tony nomination), Pipeline and the LCT3 productions of Marys Seacole (Obie Award) and War (also Yale Rep). Recent projects include: El Niño (Met Opera),  Stranger Love (LA Philharmonic); White Girl in Danger (Vineyard/Second Stage); The Listeners (Opera Norway/Opera Philadelphia); Dreaming Zenzile (NYTW/National Black Theatre); Create Dangerously (Miami New Drama); Wayne Shorter and esperanza spalding’s …(Iphigenia) (MASS MoCA, Arts Emerson, The Kennedy Center); Hansel and Gretel (a film for Houston Grand Opera); Afrofemononomy (PSNY); Anatomy of a Suicide (Atlantic); Fefu and Her Friends (TFANA); Girls (Yale Rep.); Faust (Opera Omaha); Fabulation, Or the Reeducation of Undine (Signature); Thunderbodies, Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. (Soho Rep.); The House That Will Not Stand, Red Speedo (NYTW); Water by the Spoonful (Mark Taper Forum/CTG); The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World AKA The Negro Book of the Dead (Signature, Obie Award); Henry IV, Part One and Much Ado About Nothing (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); The Bluest Eye (The Guthrie); Salome (JACK); Hollow Roots (the Under the Radar Festival at The Public). She is the recipient of the Drama League’s 2022 Founders Award for Excellence in Directing. Lileana was named a 2021 Doris Duke Artist, a 2020 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist, and a 2018 United States Artists Fellow. Upcoming: Purple Rain on Broadway.