Caridad Svich

Caridad Svich
Born	(1963-07-30) July 30, 1963 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nationality	American
Ethnicity	Hispanic
Education	University of North Carolina at Charlotte (BFA) University of California, San Diego (MFA)
Occupation	Playwright
Awards	2012 Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement

Caridad Svich (born July 30, 1963) is an award-winning playwright, songwriter/lyricist, translator, and editor who was born in the United States of 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 Theater in Edinburgh and the Royal Court Theater and has taught playwriting workshops at Paine's Plough Theater in London and the US-Cuba Writer's Conference in Havana. She has been a guest lecturer at the Yale School of Drama and a visiting faculty member at Bennington College in Vermont.

As a translator, her chief work is the English-language translation of plays and poems by Federico García Lorca published in Federico García Lorca: Impossible Theater and Lorca: Major Plays (in two volumes). Other translations and adaptations include works by Calderon de la Barca, Lope de Vega, Antonio Buero Vallejo, and contemporary dramatists Veronica Musalem, Abilio Estevez, and Silvia Pelaez.

Awards

Her awards and fellowships include an NEA/TCG Playwriting Residency at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre, a TCG/PEW National Theatre Artist Residency at INTAR, the Rosenthal New Play Prize at the Cincinnati Playhouse, the 2007 Whitfield Cook Prize for New Writing at New Dramatists, and the 2003 National Latino Playwriting Award. She has also been a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University, Jonathan R. Reynolds Playwright in Residence at Denison University, and Thurber House Fellow at Ohio State University. Svich is the founder of the performance collective NoPassport, an international theater alliance and press.

External links

• The Caridad Svich papers are available at the Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries. This archival collection contains the personal and literary works of playwright Caridad Svich. The collection is organized into two series. Series 1 consists of original theater works as well as translations by Svich; materials related to theater productions, such as playbills, advertisements, clippings, and reviews; and articles about other playwrights. Series 2 consists of audiovisual material such as MiniDVs, CDs, and tapes containing presentations by Caridad Svich and performance soundtracks.
• Selected photographs from the Caridad Svich papers are available through the University of Miami Libraries Digital Collections portal.
• Creator page for Caridad Svich in the Cuban Theater Digital Archive.