Veteran director, writer and performer Cheryl Lynn Bruce has staged productions for Victory Gardens Theatre; Teatro Vista Theatre Com- pany; Illinois Humanities; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Columbia College; University of Illinois; Indiana University; De Paul University; Creative Arts Foundation. Ms. Bruce developed and directed Sandra Delgado’s La Havana Madrid; developed and directed Delgado’s Para, Graciela and Misty DeBerry’s Milkweed (both solo works); and directed Before the Pop, Pop, Pop for Collabo- raction’s inaugural citywide Peacebook Festival (2016). She also developed and directed Kerry James Marshall’s Bunraku-influenced urban comic Rythm Mastr for the Wexner Center for the Arts (2008). She won both the African American Arts and Black Theatre Alliance Best Direction Awards for From the Mississippi Delta, and earned a Joseph Jefferson nomination for her direction of Jitney, both Congo Square Theatre productions. Other recognitions include: the Illinois Public Humanities Award (2019); Robert Rauschenberg Residency (2015); a Yale Art Gallery residency (2013); and Jane Addams Hull House Woman of Valor Award (2010).
