Lileana Blain-Cruz is a director from New York City and Miami. Recent projects include: El Niño (Metropolitan Opera); The Skin of Our Teeth (Tony nomination), The Blood Quilt, Flex, and Pipeline (Lincoln Center Theater); Marys Seacole (Obie Award, LCT3); Stranger Love (LA Philharmonic); Create Dangerously (Miami New Drama); White Girl in Danger (Vineyard / Second Stage); The Listeners (Opera Norway / Opera Philadelphia); Dreaming Zenzile (NYTW / National Black Theatre); Wayne Shorter and esperanza spalding’s …(Iphigenia) (MASS MoCA / The Kennedy Center); Hansel and Gretel (a film for Houston Grand Opera); Anatomy of a Suicide (Atlantic Theater Company); Fefu and Her Friends (TFANA); War (LCT 3 / Yale Rep); Girls (Yale Rep); Faust (Opera Omaha); Fabulation (Signature Theatre); Thunderbodies and Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. (Soho Rep); The House That Will Not Stand and Red Speedo (New York Theatre Workshop); The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (Obie Award, Signature Theater); Henry IV, Part One and Much Ado About Nothing (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); The Bluest Eye (The Guthrie). She is currently the resident director of Lincoln Center Theater, and 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.
Lileana Blain-Cruz
Lileana Blain-Cruz is a director from New York City and Miami. Recent projects include: El Niño (Metropolitan Opera); The Skin of Our Teeth (Tony nomination), The Blood Quilt, Flex, and Pipeline (Lincoln Center Theater); Marys Seacole (Obie Award, LCT3); Stranger Love (LA Philharmonic); Create Dangerously (Miami New Drama); White Girl in Danger (Vineyard / Second Stage); The Listeners (Opera Norway / Opera Philadelphia); Dreaming Zenzile (NYTW / National Black Theatre); Wayne Shorter and esperanza spalding’s …(Iphigenia) (MASS MoCA / The Kennedy Center); Hansel and Gretel (a film for Houston Grand Opera); Anatomy of a Suicide (Atlantic Theater Company); Fefu and Her Friends (TFANA); War (LCT 3 / Yale Rep); Girls (Yale Rep); Faust (Opera Omaha); Fabulation (Signature Theatre); Thunderbodies and Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. (Soho Rep); The House That Will Not Stand and Red Speedo (New York Theatre Workshop); The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (Obie Award, Signature Theater); Henry IV, Part One and Much Ado About Nothing (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); The Bluest Eye (The Guthrie). She is currently the resident director of Lincoln Center Theater, and 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.