Caridad Svich

Playwright Caridad Svich has written over 100 plays and translations, and their work has been produced across the US and abroad. Key plays include “12 Ophelias”, “Iphigenia Crash Land Falls…”, “Red Bike” and “The House of the Spirits” based on Isabel Allende’s novel. Among her honours and recognitions are the Flora Roberts Award (The Dramatists Guild), Obie for Lifetime Achievement, American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize, Edgerton Foundation New Play Award, two NNPN Rolling World Premieres and a Harvard/Radcliffe Institute Fellowship. She has also authored and/or edited several books on theatre, including “Toward a Future Theatre” (Methuen Drama), “Audience Revolution” (TCG) and “Federico Garcia Lorca: Impossible Theatre” (Smith & Kraus). Some of her plays are published by TRW Plays, Broadway Play Publishing, Intellect Books, Seagull Books. She is founder of NoPassport theatre alliance and press, is Drama Editor of Asymptote literary translation journal, is an editor at Contemporary Theatre Review (UK), associate editor at Cambridge University Press’ Elements in Contemporary Performance. Svich sits on the advisory board of Global Performance Studies. They are also Artistic Director of New Play Development at the Lucille Lortel Theater in New York City.