Analu Cruze

Analu Cruze was born on March 23, 1973, in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Marie Aulani Cruze and Andreas Demetriou Josephides, an accountant. His mother is Hawaiian, Portuguese, English, and Scottish and his father is Greek-Cypriot and emigrated to America via Ellis Island, as a British Subject (1955). Inspired by the Hawaii's Army Community Theatre's 1986 performance, the Diary of Anne Frank, he decided to study theatre at a young age and in 1988 enrolled in the Kaimuki High Schools Performing Arts Center (1988-1991), under the direction of Peggy Anne Siegmund. He is best known for his high school stage performances as the Gatekeeper in the Wiz (1988) and the Wizard in the Princess and the Pea (1991). Analu studied acting with the Kapiolani Community College (1991-1994) and the Leeward Community College (1996-1998) theatre programs. He has performed in various stage productions with the Castle High Schools Performing Arts Center and the Hawaii - Army Community Theatre. He attended method acting workshops led by actor Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa (1994) and studied television and film acting with actor and coach Cody Dorkin of Studio 24 in Sacramento, California (2014). He moved to West Hollywood, California and studied acting with Lynette McNeill in Beverly Hills, California (2016). As a younger actor he was introduced by the former Miss Universe, Brook Lee as a talent with the ADR Model and Talent Agency where he performed as an extra on the series One West Waikiki (1994) and in the summer of 2000 interned as the cultural liaison to the Bay Watch Hawaii's writing team. Analu returned back to the stage in fall of 2014 in the Folsom Lake Theatre's production of Anonymous. His first short film Morpheum showcased at the Sacrmaneto Film Festival (2015). He is best known for his role as Nic in the short film Nic (2016). The film Nic was nominated to the Latin American International Film Festival in Miami, Florida where actress, director, and writer Darryl Greene won audience choice for best director Honduras (2016). When he is not acting, Analu can be found studying as a PhD student with SUNY - University at Buffalo's Graduate School of Education - Information Science Program and performing in his tenured faculty position as the Reference and Instruction Librarian with El Camino College in Torrance, California. He has published articles in both professional publications and scholarly journals. He is working on a historical nonfiction book.