Caridad Svich
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Playwright Caridad Svich’s work has been produced by the Women’s Project of New York, Salvage Vanguard in Austin, Intar in New York, HERE in New York, and the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, among others. Her plays have been developed by ACT/Hedgebrook Festival, A.S.K. Theater Projects, Mark Taper Forum Theatre, Portland Stage, Voice & Vision’s Envision Retreat, PlayLabs in Minneapolis, Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre, London's Royal Court Theatre, and Actors Touring Company.
During her fellowship year, Svich plans to complete “The Spell of Eden,” a play with music that explores the artistic and erotic relationships among poet Federico García Lorca, painter Salvador Dalí, and filmmaker Luis Buñuel. She will also edit “Trans-Global Readings: Crossing Theatrical Boundaries,” on cross-disciplinary work, global exchange, and the artistic process.
Svich is coeditor of Theatre in Crisis? Performance Manifestos for a New Century (Manchester University Press, 2002), Out of the Fringe: Contemporary Latina/o Theatre and Performance (TC, 2000), and Conducting a Life: Reflections on the Theatre of Maria Irene Fornes (Smith & Kraus, 1999). Her critical writing has appeared in PAJ, Performance Research, Contemporary Theatre Review, and American Theatre.
A member of New Dramatists, Svich earned her BFA at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and her MFA at the University of California at San Diego. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Theatre Communications Group, the EST/Sloan project, the California Arts Council, and Denison University. She is the founder of the performance collective NoPassport.
