Migdalia Cruz is an American playwright. She has written more than forty plays, operas, screenplays, and musicals including: Fur, Miriam’s Flowers, and Another Part of the House, produced in venues as diverse as National Theater of Greece/Athens, Old Red Lion/London, Houston Grand Opera, Ateneo Puertorriqueño, & Latino Chicago Theater Company where she was writer-in-residence from 1991 to 1998. She has also translated three plays through the Lark’s Mexico/US Word Exchange. She is an alumna of New Dramatists, was mentored by Maria Irene Fornés at INTAR, and her play, El Grito Del Bronx, was seen at NYU (4/08), at Milagro Theater (4/09, Portland, OR), and opened in Chicago at the Goodman Theater in a co-production of Teatro Vista and CollaborAction (7/09).  TWO ROBERTS: a Pirate-Blues Project commissioned by the Lark with a NYSCA grant received a studio workshop in February 2011.  Her collection of plays published by NoPassport Press, entitled “El Grito Del Bronx,” features: El Grito Del Bronx, Yellow Eyes, Salt, and Da Bronx Rocks—a part of “Song For New York: What Women Do While Men Sit Knitting” presented by Mabou Mines. 

Migdalia was born and raised in the Bronx.              

Roberta Levitow is an American theatrical director and educator. Her theatre credits include Moe's Lucky Seven, The Day Dies with Sleep, Little Egypt, and Miriam's Flowers. She has also served on the faculty of several colleges and universities including UCLA, Bennington, and Brandeis. In 2003, Levitow was offered a Fulbright teaching residency at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. After returning home from her residency, Levitow dedicated herself completely to international theatre exchange. In 2004, she founded Theatre Without Borders, an online grassroots community that connects artists from different countries. 

Later that year, working with the Sundance Institute Theatre Program, Levitow founded the Sundance Institute of East Africa. She has also created an international exchange program with artisits in Romania, an exchange project between Iraq and Pakistan, and a theatre collaboration between Iranian, Israeli, and American theatre artists.

Levitow is a graduate of Stanford University.