Cheryl Lynn Bruce

FAVORITE TVP PRODUCTION
La Havana Madrid

FUN FACT
"I'm an avid gardener, absolutely love flowers, and enjoy cooking!"

WHAT CHERYL LOVES ABOUT TVP
"The breadth of talent and the vision and determination of this family of creatives"

BIO
Cheryl Lynn Bruce has performed on numerous regional stages as well as in Europe and Mexico. She has won two prestigious Helen Hayes Awards (Best Supporting Actress, 2019) and (Outstanding Lead Actress,1991); received a Rauschenberg residency through a 3Arts fellowship (2015); a Yale University Art Gallery residency (2011); and both the Jane Addams Hull House Association’s Woman of Valor Award (2010) and 3Arts Award (2010) for her work as theatre artist and educator.

Stage credits include: Antigone (Court Theatre); VOTE! (Court Theatre For One). Film credits include: Stranger Than Fiction; Daughters of the Dust; The Fugitive. Television credits include: Prison Break; There Are No Children Here; Separate but Equal; To Sir with Love, 2.

A Teatro Vista company member, Ms. Bruce helped develop and directed Sandra Delgado’s La Havana Madrid premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre 1700, and productions at Millennium Park, South Coast Repertory, Goodman Theatre, and The Den Theatre. She directed The House of the Negro Insane (Contemporary American Theatre Festival and National Black Theatre Festival); Yemandja starring Angelique Kidjo (Mass MOCA, Broad Stage, Cal Performance at Berkeley, Kennedy Center); and Pipeline (Victory Gardens Theatre).

Inaugural Fellow of the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media at Columbia College Chicago (2006), Ms. Bruce traveled to Iida, Japan to study Bunraku puppetry for her staging of Kerry James Marshall’s urban comic, Rythm Mastr, at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (2008).

Some Ra, her poetical essay on the Afro-Futurist, musician and philosopher, is included in Traveling the Spaceways: Sun-Ra, the Astro Black and Other Solar Myths, (2009) John Corbett, Anthony Elms, and Terri Kapsalis, Editors.