Scheduled world and area premieres for OBIE-winning playwright Caridad Svich in the 2012-2013 theatre season:
Her new play GUAPA will receive an NNPN rolling world premiere at Borderlands Theatre in Arizona, Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis, and Miracle Theatre in Oregon; her play based on Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ Love in the Time of Cholera will receive its Spanish language world premiere at Repertorio Espanol in the fall in New York City, and her play The Tropic of X will receive its English language premiere at Single Carrot Theatre in Baltimore, MD.
There will also be regional premieres of her bilingual version of In the Time of the Butterflies (based on the novel by Julia Alvarez) at Mixed Blood Theatre in Minneapolis and The House of the Spirits at Gala Hispanic Theatre in Washington D.C.
Academic productions in 2012-2013: 12 Ophelias (a play with broken songs) at USC-Los Angeles, and Chico State in California; The Archaeology of Dreams at University of Nebraska-Omaha.