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Interview with caridad svich playwright la casa de los espiritus
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.
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- Interview with caridad svich playwright la casa de los espiritus
- Introduction by caridad svich playwright founder nopassport
- Biography
- Awards
- Works or publications
- References
Introduction by caridad svich playwright founder nopassport
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.