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Lileana Blain-Cruz

Director

Recent Projects: Marys Seacole at LCT3; Faust at Opera Omaha; Fabulation, Or the Reeducation of Undine at Signature Theatre; Thunderbodies at Soho Rep.; The House That Will Not Stand at New York Theatre Workshop; Water by the Spoonful at Mark Taper Forum/CTG; Pipeline at Lincoln Center; The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World at Signature Theatre (Obie Award); Henry IV, Part One and Much Ado About Nothing at Oregon Shakespeare Festival; The Bluest Eye at The Guthrie; War at LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater and Yale Repertory Theater; Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. at Soho Rep.; Red Speedo at New York Theatre Workshop; Salome at JACK; Hollow Roots, the Under the Radar Festival at The Public Theater; A Guide to Kinship and Maybe Magic at Dance New Amsterdam. She was recently named a 2018 United States Artists Fellow. She received her MFA in directing from the Yale School of Drama. Upcoming projects include Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Girls at Yale Rep.