FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 1, 2004
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Brown Theatre and Sock & Buskin present

Anna in the Tropics

By Nilo Cruz

Directed by Lowry Marshall  
October 21 -31, 2004
Thursday through Sunday at 8 pm, however October 31 is a 3 pm matinee.  

Stuart Theatre
Catherine Bryan Dill Performing Arts Center
77 Waterman Street , Providence , Rhode Island

About the Production:

Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this lyrical ode to great literature and a time gone by takes us to Tampa in 1930, where every day the workers at a cigar factory recreate the intoxicating Cuba they left behind. Into this heady atmosphere comes the and handsome and mysterious Juan Julian, a professional "lector" who reads Tolstoy's tragic love story, Anna Karenina, aloud to the workers. The results are seductive, bemusing-and shocking.

Under the direction of Lowry Marshall, this production will feature the evocative set designs of Michael McGarty. For names of cast and crew and other references please visit our web site at www.brown.edu/tickets

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Anna1.gif - Lucy DeVito as "Marela"

Anna2.gif - Tom Lipinski as "Juan Julia"in and Lucy DeVito as "Marela"

Anna3.gif - Tom Lipinski as "Juan Julian" and Angelica Sherer as "Conchita"

Anna4a.gif - Tom Lipinski as "Juan Julian" and Angelica Sherer as "Conchita"

Cast List:
Juan Julian......................................Thomas Lipinski '04.5 Conchita.........................................Angelica Scherer '06 Marela............................................Lucy Devito '05 Santiago.........................................Daniel Hernandez '06 Ofelia..............................................Reese Smith '05 Cheche...........................................Aaron Cutler '08 Palomo...........................................Michael Obremski '07 Eliades...........................................Joshua Unseth '08 Ensemble........................................Monica Willey '07, Andrea Gompf '08, Gloria Huwiler '06, Sarah Perlman '07,  Cody Campanie '08, Nicholas Clifford '08, Joshua Unseth '08, Andrew Skinner '08

Stage Manager.................................Lauren Engel '08
Assistant Stage Manager...................Julia Hellman '08
Assistant Stage Manager...................Brendan Pelsue '08
Assistant Stage Manager...................Danielle Bowen '08

About the Playwright:

Nilo Cruz was born in Matanzas , Cuba in 1961. He immigrated to the "Little Havana" area of Miami in 1970, and eventually became a U.S. citizen. His interest in theatre began as an actor and director in the early 1980s. Cruz earned a Master's degree in fine arts from Brown University in 1994, and has taught drama at Brown and Yale. In 2001, he served as the playwright-in-residence for the New Theatre in Coral Gables , Florida . He currently resides in New York .

Cruz' plays are many and include Night Train to Bolina, Dancing on her Knees, A Park in Our House, Two Sisters and a Piano, A Bicycle Country, Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams (World premiere at New Theatre 2001), Lorca in a Green Dress, Beauty of the Father, and translations of Lorca's Doña Rosita the Spinster and The House of Bernarda Alba.

Cruz has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including two NEA/TCG National Theatre Artist Residency grants, a Rockefeller Foundation grant, San Francisco 's W. Alton Jones award and a Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays award. His work has been seen at the McCarter Theatre in New Jersey, at New York's Shakespeare Festival's Public Theatre, at South Coast Rep, at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, New York Theatre Workshop, Magic Theatre, Minneapolis Children's Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Washington's Studio Theatre, Florida Stage, The Coconut Grove Playhouse, and at New Theatre, where his Ybor City (working title) will receive its world premiere in October of 2002, and where he is Playwright-in-Residence. Anna in the Tropics is the first play since Robert Schenkkan's The Kentucky Cycle to win the Pulitzer without having had a production in New York .