This Cuban-American playwright gained national prominence in 2003 when he won the Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award nomination for his play Anna in the Tropics. He has received numerous awards, including those from the Kennedy Center Fund, American Theatre Critics and the Humana Festival for New American Plays; as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation. His plays include Dancing on Her Knees; A Park in Our House; Two Sisters and a Piano; A Bicycle Country; Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams; Lorca in a Green Dress; Beauty of the Father; Hurricane; and A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, as well as translations of Doña Rosita the Spinster; The House of Bernarda Alba; Life Is a Dream; and ¡Ay, Carmela! His work has been seen at numerous theaters around the country including, among others, South Coast Rep, the Mark Taper Forum, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Washington D.C.’s Studio Theatre and New York’s Public Theater and around the world.

Founding Member/Artistic Producer of The Sol Project, Producer of SolFest, and Producer for LTC’s first Miami Regional Convening, Adriana has performed as an actor at regional theaters across the nation—most notably Yale Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Dallas Theater Center, Denver Center, Arizona Theatre Company, Pasadena Playhouse, Marin Theatre Company, Alabama Shakespeare Festival and Chicago Shakespeare Theater. In NYC, she has worked with the Immigrants' Theatre Project at the Public Theater, the Lark, FringeNYC/Fringe NYC Encores Series at Classic Stage Company/Lion Theatre, Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Repertorio Español, Working Theater at the Abingdon, IATI, Atlantic Theatre Company and New York Stage & Film at Vassar. Television and film credits include “Person of Interest,” “Law & Order: CI,” “You and I, Always” and “Sueños.” She earned her BFA from Florida International University and her MFA from the Yale School of Drama. adrianagaviria.com