CARIDAD SVICH

Caridad is a U.S. Latina playwright, translator, lyricist and editor whose works have been produced across the U.S. and abroad at diverse venues including Denver Center Theatre, Mixed Blood, The Women’s Project, 59E59, Repertorio Espanol, McCarren Park Pool, Cincinnati Playhouse, 7 Stages, Salvage Vanguard, Edinburgh Fringe Festival and ARTheater-Cologne. She was finalist for the 2010 PEN USA Award in Drama for her play Instructions for Breathing. Among her key works: 12 Ophelias, Alchemy of Desire/Dead-Man’s Blues, Any Place But Here, Iphigenia...a rave fable, The House of the Spirits (based on the novel by Isabel Allende), and the multimedia collaboration The Booth Variations. Her new plays Magnificent Waste and In the Time of the Butterflies (based on the novel by Julia Alvarez) premiered in 2011 in Washington DC and New York City, respectively. She’s taught playwriting at Yale School of Drama, Bard College, Bennington College, Barnard College, Denison University, Ohio State University, Rutgers University-New Brunswick and UCSD. She’s alumna playwright of New Dramatists, founder of NoPassport theatre alliance and press, contributing editor of Theatre Forum and associate editor of Contemporary Theatre Review. She’s edited several books on theatre and performance published by Manchester University Press, TCG, BackStage Books and Smith & Kraus. Visit her at www.caridadsvich.com.