Chess star Hannah Cruz first moved to New York City in 2011, where she worked as a babysitter, in coffee shops, as a caterer and an extra on TV shows. "I would try and take acting classes and singing lessons and stay up on the craft and see as much as I could. But there were lots of swaths of not working," she says. She played Eliza on the Hamilton national tour pre-pandemic, where she met her now-husband…
