The University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences Center for the Humanities announces that Nilo Cruz will be the first Stanford Distinguished Professor in the 2011-2012 academic year. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz will present "Theatre Accompanied by Light: Searching for Poetry in the Theatre" on Thursday, September 15th at 7:00 pm in the Storer Auditorium on the Coral Gables campus at the University of Miami.
Nilo Cruz was born in Cuba in 1960, and immigrated to Miami with his family when he was nine years old. He grew up in Little Havana, and studied theater at Miami Dade Community College; he earned his MFA from Brown in 1994. As playwright-in-residence at the New Theatre in Coral Gables, he wrote Anna in the Tropics, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2003 and has been performed on Broadway and in theaters across the country. His most recent play, The Color of Desire, premiered at the Actors' Playhouse in Coral Gables. Cruz has taught drama at various universities, including Brown, Yale, and the University of Iowa.The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. For registration and further information, please visit http://www.humanities.miami.edu/programs/stanford2012.In addition to Nilo Cruz, the Stanford Distinguished Professors for 2011-2012 include esteemed physicist, professor and accomplished novelist Alan Lightman. Lightman is the author of the international best-seller Einstein's Dreams. Distinguished University of British Columbia professor of Philosophy and specialist in aesthetics Dominic McIver Lopes will also be visiting.Photo Credit: Peter James Zielinski
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