Caridad Svich Explained

Caridad Svich
Birth Date:30 July 1963
Birth Place:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Awards:2012 Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement

Caridad Svich (;[1] born July 30, 1963) is a playwright, songwriter/lyricist, translator, and editor who was born in the United States to Cuban-Argentine-Spanish-Croatian parents.

Biography

A member of the New York's New Dramatists, she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and her Master of Fine Arts at the University of California, San Diego. She has written over forty full-length plays and fifteen translations as well as other short works. Svich has been a guest artist at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh and the Royal Court Theater and has taught playwriting workshops at Paines Plough Theater in London and the US-Cuba Writer's Conference in Havana.

Career

Caridad Svich is the founder of theatre alliance and publisher NoPassport. Her work has impacted communities of multiple diversities and has responded to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, veterans and their families, survivors of trauma and those committed to artistic expression of advocacy for US Latin writing voices, and engagement with representations of the “fragile shores” in our lives, amongst others.[2]

Svich sustains a career as a theatrical translator as well, mainly of the dramatic work of Federico García Lorca. She has received fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study,[3] NEA/TCG, PEW Charitable Trust, and California Arts Council. She has trained for four consecutive years with Maria Irene Fornes in INTAR Theatre's HPRL Lab.

Svich teaches creative writing and playwriting at Rutgers University–New Brunswick and Primary Stages’ Einhorn School of Performing Arts. She has been a guest lecturer at the Yale School of Drama and a visiting faculty member at Bennington College. She has also has taught playwriting at Bard College, Barnard College, Denison University, Ohio State University, ScriptWorks, University of California, San Diego, and Yale School of Drama.[4]

Svich was the co-organizer and curator of After Orlando, a collection of new 3–to-5 minute plays responding to the 2016 shooting at Pulse nightclub. Over 40 theatrical institutions and universities nationwide and abroad participated.[5] [6]

In 2023 her play Arbor Falls was performed at Grinnell College.[7]

Awards and honors

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Published works

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External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Summit soliloquies, Day 3: Caridad Svich. . 1 August 2020.
  2. Web site: About NoPassport. NoPassport. en-US. 26 January 2021.
  3. Web site: Caridad Svich. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. en-US. 26 January 2021.
  4. Web site: Resume. Caridad Svich. en-US. 26 January 2021.
  5. Web site: AFTER ORLANDO...theatre action NoPassport. nopassport.org. 2019-12-10.
  6. Web site: 'After Orlando,' Playwrights Step Into the Breach. Tran. Diep. 2016-10-18. AMERICAN THEATRE. en-US. 2019-12-10.
  7. Web site: 2023-03-11 . Production Season Grinnell College . 2023-03-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230311011502/https://www.grinnell.edu/academics/majors-concentrations/theatre-dance/productions . 2023-03-11 .
  8. Web site: Resume – Caridad Svich. en-US. 2019-12-10.

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