About Analū Cruze

 Analū Cruze was born on March 23, 1973, in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Marie Aulani Cruze, a retired baker and certified nursing assistant, and Andreas Demetriou Josephides, an accountant. His mother is of Hawaiian, Portuguese, English, and Scottish descent, and his father, a Greek-Cypriot, emigrated to America via Ellis Island as a British subject in 1955. Inspired by the Hawaii Army Community Theatre's 1986 production of The Diary of Anne Frank, he decided to study theatre at a young age. In 1988, he enrolled in the Kaimuki High School Performing Arts Center (1988–1991) under the direction of Peggy Anne Siegmund.

Analū studied acting at Kapiolani Community College (1991–1994) and Leeward Community College (1996–1998). He has performed in various stage productions with the Castle High School 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). Analū currently studies acting, improv, and playwriting at the Santa Monica Playhouse in Santa Monica, California, under Co-Artistic Directors Evelyn Rudie and Chris DeCarlo (2022–2023).

As a young actor, he was introduced by former Miss Universe Brook Lee as a talent with the ADR Model and Talent Agency, where he worked as an extra on the series One West Waikiki (1994) and interned as the cultural liaison for the Baywatch Hawaii writing team (Summer 2000). Analū returned to the stage in the fall of 2014 in the Folsom Lake Theatre's production of Anonymous. His first short film, Morpheum, was showcased at the Sacramento Film Festival (2015). He is best known for his role as Nic in the short film Nic (2016), which was nominated for the Central American International Film Festival in Miami, Florida.  At the festival, actress, director, and writer Daryl Greene Callejas won the audience choice award for best director (Honduras, 2016). Mr. Cruze studied Shakespearean theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England (2024), where he performed as Malcolm and the Porter in Macbeth onstage at the Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre (RADA).

When not acting, Analū is a PhD student in the Information Science Program at SUNY–University at Buffalo’s Graduate School of Education and serves as the Reference and Instruction Librarian at El Camino College in Torrance, California, where he holds a tenured faculty position. He has published articles in both professional publications and scholarly journals. He is currently writing a play, a historical nonfiction book, and a Covid-related story. Analū recently released his first children's book, The Legend of the Three Pu'u, available at Barnes & Noble (

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/) and Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/author/analucruze).