Lileana Blain-Cruz

Lileana Blain-Cruz is a director from New York City and Miami. Recent projects include: Han­sel and Gretel (Houston Grand Opera); Afro­femononomy (PSNY); Anatomy of a Suicide (Atlantic Theater Company); Fefu and Her Friends (TFANA); Girls (Yale Repertory Thea­ter); Marys Seacole (LCT3, Obie Award); Faust (Opera Omaha); Fabulation, Or the Reeduca­tion of Undine (Signature Theatre); Thunder­bodies and Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again (Soho Rep.); The House That Will Not Stand and Red Speedo (New York Theatre Workshop); Water by the Spoonful (Mark Taper Forum/CTG); Pipeline (Lincoln Center); The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (Signature Theatre, Obie Award); Henry IV, Part One and Much Ado About Nothing (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); The Bluest Eye (The Guthrie); War (LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater and Yale Rep.); Salome (JACK); Hollow Roots (the Under the Radar Festival at the Public Theater). Up­coming projects include: Dreaming Zenzile (St. Louis Rep) and The Listeners (Opera Norway). Blain-Cruz was recently named a 2018 United States Artists Fellow and a 2020 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist. She is currently the resident director of Lincoln Center Theater. A graduate of Princeton, she received her MFA in directing from the Yale School of Drama.