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Caridad Svich

Title: Playwright

Education:
Bachelor in Creative Arts-Performance, UNC Charlotte (1985)
Master of Fine Arts in Theatre-Playwriting, University of California, San Diego (1988)

Hometown: Philadelphia, PA

Since graduating from UNC Charlotte, Caridad Svich has written more than 40 full-length plays, a variety of short works, and 15 translations. She has edited Innovation in Five Acts: Strategies for Theatre and Performance (published by Theatre Communications Group in 2015), and a collection of three of her plays, JARMAN (all this maddening beauty) and other plays, was published in the UK by Intellect Books. Her most recent book, Toward a Future Theatre, was published by Methuen Drama in 2022. She is currently Artistic Director of New Play Development at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in New York City.

Caridad received a 2012 OBIE Award for Lifetime Achievement in the theatre, a 2012 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award and the National New Play Network rolling world premiere for Guapa, an

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Caridad Svich is a playwright. She received the 2012 OBIE for Lifetime Achievement and the ATCA Primus Prize. Her plays RED BIKE and GUAPA received NNPN rolling world premieres. She is a former Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University, and Visiting Research Fellow at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She is published by TCG, Methuen Drama, Routledge, Intellect Books, Smith & Kraus, and more. She is founder of NoPassport Press.

Gabriela Saker is an actress, producer, writer and journalist, originally from Cuba, and currently based in New York and Puerto Rico. Founder and Artistic Director of Teatro Público, a theater company seeking to strengthen excellence, diversity, innovation and social transformation in the Puerto Rican theatrical landscape. Former journalist of Puerto Rico’s top newspaper, El Nuevo Día, covering politics, education and social justice. She was a member of Generation 25, created by The Peace Studio and Mashirika for the Ubumuntu Arts Festival in Kigali, Rwanda, and has also performed in Madrid, Barcelona and Santiago de Compo

Caridad Svich

Biography

Caridad Svich is a playwright-songwriter-translator and editor. Her play Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell That was Once Her Heart (a rave fable) recently received its world premiere at 7 Stages in Atlanta. She has held an NEA/TCG Residency at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre, a TCG/Pew residency at INTAR Theatre, and has been a Radcliffe Institute fellow at Harvard University. Twelve Ophelias (a play with broken songs) was presented at Baruch Performing Arts Center in New York in March 2004, and her multimedia collaboration (with Nick Philippou & Todd Cerveris) The Booth Variations at 59 East 59th Street Theatre in August 2004. Her play Magnificent Waste was the recipient of the 2003 National Latino Playwriting Award, and selected for the 2004 Tribeca Film Institute All Access Open Stage program.

Ms. Svich is editor of Trans-global Readings: Crossing Theatrical Boundaries (Manchester University Press, UK, 2004). She is co-editor of Conducting a Life: Reflections on the Theatre of Maria Irene Fornes (Smith & Kraus, 1999), Out of the

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