MIGDALIA
CRUZ
Another Part of the House
Classic Stage Company, New York, NY
Migdalia Cruz's Another Part of the House is inspired by Federico Garcia Lorca's classic The House of Bernarda Alba. It is written from the point of view of Maria Josefa, Bernarda's mother who is locked away in her bedroom. Maria Josefa, like everyone else in her family, is secretly in love with the mysterious and forbidden Pepe el Romano. She imagines that her pet sheep is really Pepe, the man. Bernarda's youngest daughter, Adela, is Maria Josefa's only friend and confidant. Together they plot to escape Bernarda's tyranny.
Migdalia
Cruz's work has been produced by many theaters, including Playwrights Horizons,
INTAR, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York Shakespeare Festival's Festival Latino,
the Cleveland Play House, Houston Grand Opera, and American Repertory Theater.
Her plays include Miriam's Flowers, Lucy Loves Me, Dreams of
Home, Telling Tales, Occasional Grace, Winnie in the Citie,
Whistle, and Not Time's Fool. Publishers of her plays and monologues
include Routledge Press, Penguin Books, and Applause Books. Cruz is also a recipient
of 1991 and 1995 NEA Playwriting Fellowships, a 1988 McKnight Fellowship, and
a 1994 PEW/TCG National Artist in Residency at Classic Stage Company. She received
her MFA degree from Columbia University and in April 1996 became a writer-in-residence
at Latino Chicago Theater Company.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts