Baritone-Tenor (jazz and classical vocalist)
Currently starring in Dog Day Afternoon as Leon · August Wilson Theatre · Mar 30, 2026
Trained from adolescence across dance, acting, and music in Chicago's rigorous institutional landscape, Esteban Andres Cruz emerged as a principal dancer with Cincinnati Ballet before pivoting to acting, where their 2019 Off-Broadway debut as Venus Ramirez in *Halfway Bitches Go Straight To Heaven* earned critical recognition and a Drama Desk nomination. A recipient of the TCG National Fox Acting Fellow Award, Cruz has consolidated their position as a multidisciplinary artist of uncommon range, working as actor, choreographer, composer, and playwright while bringing radical visibility as a blind, trans-nonbinary Latinx performer to stages across the country.
Drama Desk Award nomination for Best Featured Actor for originating the role of Venus Ramirez in Stephen Adly Guirgis's *Halfway Bitches Go Straight To Heaven* (2019)
Barat College Conservatory of Dance (two years, Taylor-Graham and Cecchetti Ballet); University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (BA in Rhetoric, with studies in creative non-fiction and prose poetry); Steppenwolf School; iO Chicago (improv program); The Annoyance Theater (improv)
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