Month: May 2011

“A new fund for female playwrights, a more selective field of new plays and special honors for Tony and Pulitzer nominee Lee Blessing will highlight the sixth annual Great Plains Theatre Conference.

Starting Saturday, the eight-day conference will again provide a showcase and workshops for new playwrights with staged readings of their plays, critiques by established playwrights and others, and a full slate of workshops….

“The Women Playwrights Fund, new this year, has sponsored the appearance of established playwright Caridad Svich at the conference, along with emerging playwright Ellen Struve of Omaha. Svich’s play will be performed Sunday night, and Struve’s will get a reading Tuesday morning.

 

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“Continuing my posts in celebration of the Great Plains Theater Conference, here is a very recent piece I wrote for El Perico, a dual English-Spanish language newspaper published inSouth Omaha, about Caridad Svich, a featured playwright at the 2011 conference. I did a very long phone interview with Svich and had enough material for a full blown feature profile of her, but my assignment called for a short  700-word piece and that’s what I delivered.  I still think I managed to get some sense for who she is and how she views things in the article, though I would have preferred to have more space in order to flesh some points out and to include other elements of her life and story.

read more here: http://leoadambiga.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/featured-great-plains-theatre-conference-playwright-caridad-svich-explore-bicultural-themes/