About me
CarlosAlexis Cruz is the Producing Artistic Director of the Nouveau Sud Circus project; a circus for social change company in service of intercultural and cross cultural communications in the urban region of Charlotte, North Carolina.
Cruz’s Nouveau Sud was awarded a NEFA National Theatre Project Creation and Touring grant for La Bestia- a circus take on the journey of migration. Other notable awards: Knight Foundation- 2024 Arts+Tech and 2022 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 Professor of Physical Theatre and the Co-Director of Community Heritage and the Arts research center within the College of Arts + Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
