Caridad Svich is a playwright-lyricist-translator and editor of Cuban-Spanish-Argentine-Croatian descent. She was profiled in the July/August 2009 issue of American Theatre magazine. She’s received, among others, the 2012 OBIE for Lifetime Achievement, 2012 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award, 2011 ATCA Primus Prize, and the National Latino Playwriting Award twice in her career, the 2009 Lee Reynolds Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women, a Harvard University Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Bunting fellowship, TCG/Pew National Theatre Artist Grant at INTAR Theatre, NEA/TCG Playwriting Residency at Mark Taper Forum, has been short-listed four times for the PEN USA-West Award in Drama and is featured in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Latino Literature.
Plays Produced (professional) in career:
12 Ophelias (a play with broken songs)
A Little Betrayal Among Friends (freely adapted/translated from Maria Zayas de Sotomayor)
Alchemy of Desire/Dead-Man’s Blues
Antigone Arkhe (short play)
Any Place But Here
The Booth Variations
but there are fires (one act)
Carthage/Cartagena scheduled for 2015
Fugitive Pieces (a play with songs)*
Gleaning/Rebusca
Guapa
The House of the Spirits/La Casa de los Espiritus (based on the novel by Isabel Allende)*(Spanish and English versions by Svich)
Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell That Was Once Her Heart (a rave fable)
In the Time of the Butterflies/En el Tiempo de las Mariposas (based on the novel by Julia Alvarez), *(Spanish and English versions by Svich)
Instructions for Breathing
Jarman (all this maddening beauty) scheduled for 2014-15
The Labyrinth of Desire (freely adapted/translated from Lope de Vega)
Love in the Time of Cholera (based on the novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez) * (Spanish and English versions by Svich)
Magnificent Waste
Prodigal Kiss
Return to the Upright Position (collaborative text),
Self-Made (short play)
Scar (short play)
Thrush (a play with slaughter songs)
The Tropic of X
The Way of Water (workshop production at Frank Theatre)
Turn the Dark Up, Bow Down, This is a Hymn
Waterfall
Wreckage
Translations/Adaptations produced:
Federico Garcia Lorca’s
As Five Years Pass,
Blood Wedding,
Chimera,
Dona Rosita,
Love of Don Perlimplin for Belisa in the Garden,
And The House of Bernarda Alba,
Alberto Estorino’s Santa Cecilia (Havana Under the Sea),
Alberto Pedro’s Our Wide Wide Sea (Faith, Hope and Charity),
Uglesja Sajtinac’s Huddersfield,
Bea Carmina’s The Tip of the Iceberg,
Full-length Plays developed or in development:
Archipelago
12 Short Prayers for Life When Dying,
A Little Story
Away Down Dreaming
Brazo Gitano (produced at university level)
Calculating Genesis
Forty Ounces of Sand
Genuine Bonafide Article
Grace (In the Upper Room)
Hide Sky
The Hour of All Things
In Your Arms
Kill to Eat (a patriot song) (workshop production at Hangar Theatre Lab)
Lucinda Caval
Lulu Ascending
Luna Park (commissioned and produced at high school level)
The Monster in the Garden (freely adapted and translated from Calderon de la Barca, produced at the university level)
Pensacola
Perdita Gracia (commissioned and produced at university level)
Proper Positions (produced at university level)
Rift (commissioned and produced at university level)
The Archaeology of Dreams (produced at university level)
Shelter
Slow Fast Walking on the Red Eye
Something Simple, Plain-Spoken
Spark
Steal Back Light from the Virtual
The Spell of Eden
Tilt Heaven
Transmission 0500/To the Blue Peninsula
Winter in July (produced at the university level)
Verbatim
Translations developed:
Federico Garcia Lorca’s
The Public (produced at university level)
The Shoemaker’s Prodigious Wife
Yerma
Buster Keaton Takes a Walk
The Maiden, The Sailor and the Student
and A Dream of Life/Play without a Title;
Julio Cortazar’s The Kings
Antonio Buero Vallejo’s The Story of a Staircase
Silvia Pelaez’ Fever 107 Degrees
Hugo Alfredo Hinojosa’s Deserts
Veronica Musalem’s Adela and Juana
Victor Rascon Banda’s Absence
Alberto Castillo’s Severed Moon
Short Plays in development (selected listing):
Astral Yearning,
Bliss,
Elyisum at 3 AM,
Relish My Tears
Degree/Affiliations: She holds an MFA in Theatre-Playwriting from UCSD. She is alumna playwright of New Dramatists, contributing editor of TheatreForum, associate editor of Contemporary Theatre Review (Routledge/UK), affiliate artist of New Georges, and founder of NoPassport international theatre alliance & press, and member of PEN American Center, The Dramatists Guild and League of Professional Theatre Women.
Archives: University of Miami Cuban/Latino Theatre Collection/FL, and the Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute at Ohio State University. Website: www.caridadsvich.com