Migdalia Cruz is a Bronx-born, award-winning, multi-platform, playwright, lyricist, translator, and librettist of more than 60 works for stage, radio, film, TV, and podcast, performed in 150 venues in 40 cities in 12 countries.  

An alumna of New Dramatists, her awards include: NEA, McKnight, NYSCA, TCG/Pew, and she was named the 2013 Helen Merrill Distinguished Playwright. María Irene Fornés nurtured her at INTAR and Latino Chicago gave her a home as their playwright-in residence. She is a master teacher of playwriting with the Fornés Institute, various universities, and professional theater schools. She was co-chair of the DGF Playwriting Fellows 2020-21; mentors the NYC Latinx Playwrights Circle; and was recently commissioned by Clubbed Thumb, The Flea, INTAR, and Kitchen Dog (Dallas).  

2021-23 productions: Macbeth translation @Shakespeare In Detroit, August 2023; Macbeth translation & Fishtank, in a workshop-collaboration with Blueprint/ PlayOnShakespeare/Magic Theatre (San Francisco) in April, 2023; Selections from TELLING TALES (Ratones, Arena, Jesús & Fuego) in Spanish, with performer/director, Elisa Bocanegra in Medellín, Colombia; Dinner With Dee (Kitchen Dog, Dallas), June 2022; a Play On Shakespeare translation of Macbeth (Sunderland, England) @TheatreSpaceNorthEast, Aug 2021, and in 2022@USD/Old Globe (San Diego), and is now a podcast Next Chapter Podcasts; Richard III produced by TheatreSpaceNorthEast (Sunderland) YORICK’S LAST LAUGH @Shakespeare Dallas, 2021.  Her translations of Macbeth & Richard III were published by ACMRS Press. Migdalia was featured in “SHAKESPEARE AND LATINIDAD,” Edinburgh University Press, 2021, and in “Fifty Key Figures in LatinX and Latin American Theatre,” published by Routledge, February 2022.