CarlosAlexis Cruz
• – • Woodlawn Community Fellowship
About the speaker
CarlosAlexis Cruz is the Director of the Community, Heritage & the Arts research center (CHArt) within the College of Arts and Architecture and Professor of Physical Theatre at UNC Charlotte.
For his work as a community engaged scholar and leader Cruz was awarded the 2024 Engaged Faculty award from the North Carolina Campus Engagement organization and the 2023 Bonnie Cone Distinguished Professorship in Civic Engagement, an institutional recognition.
In the professional field, Cruz serves as the Producing Artistic Director of the Nouveau Sud Circus project; a socially-engaged circus company in service of intercultural and cross cultural communications in the urban region of Charlotte, North Carolina. The company is currently invested in La BESTIA, a circus take on the journey of Central American immigrants to the United States. This project is currently on touring contracts. Nouveau Sud is recently developed a new show addressing Gun Violence and the rise of mass shootings in this country. Cruz’s Nouveau Sud was awarded a NEFA National Theatre Project Creation and Touring grant for La Bestia. Other notable awards include the Knight Foundation’s 2023 Arts + Technology award and the 2021 Celebrate Charlotte Arts, Princess Grace Foundation 2017 Works in Progress Award for the development of Pícaro with the support of the Baryshnikov Arts Center in NYC and the 2014 Arts and Science Council’s McColl award for the development of new, socially-engaged work. With the latter the Nouveau Sud Circus project was developed.
Cruz is the immediate past President of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, serves as National Vice-Chair for the Building Opportunity through Leadership and Development (BOLD) initiative within the American College Theatre Festival (formerly affiliated with the Kennedy Center), and is a working board member of the Network of Ensemble Theatres.
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Location
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Woodlawn Community Fellowship
737 E Woodlawn Rd
Charlotte, North Carolina United States 28209
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Videographer Levin Chaskey
Photographer Chuck Peebles
