Viareggio native, Maestro Valerio Galli, was born in the cradle of where some of the greatest versimo operas were ever written. She is a graduate of Princeton and received her MFA in directing from the Yale School of Drama. She is currently the resident director of Lincoln Center Theater. Lileana was named a 2021 Doris Duke Artist, a 2020 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist, and a 2018 United States Artists Fellow. 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). Louis Rep, McCarter Theatre, upcoming: NYTW / National Black Theatre) Marys Seacole (LCT3, Obie Award) Wayne Shorter and esperanza spalding’s …(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. Recent projects include: The Skin of Our Teeth (Lincoln Center), Dreaming Zenzile (St.

LILEANA BLAIN-CRUZ is a director from New York City and Miami.

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