Caridad Svich
Playwright
Caridad Svich is a 2024 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow. Her plays and translations have been produced across the US and abroad. Of Cuban-Argentine-Spanish-Croatian descent, her work centers on environmental and human rights, examines the poetics and politics of resistance, and often radically reconfigures the classics. Key pieces include 12 Ophelias, Iphigenia Crash Land Falls…, Red Bike, and The House of the Spirits (based on Isabel Allende’s novel). Among her honors: Flora Roberts Award (The Dramatists Guild), Obie for Lifetime Achievement, Ellen Stewart Career Achievement Award (ATHE), American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize, Edgerton Foundation New Play Award, and a Harvard/Radcliffe Institute Fellowship. She has authored/edited several books including Toward a Future Theatre (Methuen Drama), Audience Revolution (TCG), and Federico Garcia Lorca: Impossible Theatre (Smith & Kraus). She is also published by TRW Plays, Broadway Play Publishing, Intellect Books, and more. As a screenwriter, the feature film Fugitive Dreams is streaming on Apple Tv and Amazon Prime. They are founder of NoPassport theatre alliance & press, Co-Artistic Director at the Lucille Lortel Theater, Drama Editor at Asymptote literary journal, and an editor at Contemporary Theatre Review (Routledge, UK). She teaches creative writing at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, NYU School of Professional Studies and Tisch, the Einhorn School of Performing Arts at Primary Stages Theatre, and through her own private virtual studio. website: https://caridadsvich.com