Lileana Blain-Cruz

Lileana Blain-Cruz is a director from New York City and Miami. Recent projects include: Marys Seacole (LCT3, Obie Award); Iphigenia (MASS MoCA, Arts Emerson, The Kennedy Center); Hansel and Gretel (a film for Houston Grand Opera); Afrofemononomy (PSNY); Anatomy of a Suicide (Atlantic Theater Company); Fefu and Her Friends (TFANA); Girls (Yale Rep.); 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: The Listeners (Opera Norway). She was named a 2018 United States Artists Fellow and a 2020 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist, and is currently the resident director of Lincoln Center Theater. She is a graduate of Princeton and received her M.F.A. in directing from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.