New Dramatists invites you to an alumni reading of
SALT
a new play by Caridad Svich
Love. Guilt. Globalization. A diplomat is murdered abroad. His friends back home are left behind. A story of what we do to each other in the name of progress.
Directed by Jose Zayas
on November 6, 2013
at 3 PM
at New Dramatists, 424 West 44th Street, NYC
RSVP to 212-757-6960 or to saltatnewdramatists@gmail.com
Ensemble Studio Theatre presents a memberfest reading of
THE HOUR OF ALL THINGS
a new play by Caridad Svich*
“aren’t we amazing? when we’re in love?”
Directed by Jose Zayas
Cast: John Hutton (company member, Denver Center Theatre Company)
A play in nine portraits that confronts the soul of America. A story of a citizen looking at Western democracy in the wake of the Occupy movement. A story of love, country and bad shopping.
On October 30, 2013
@ 4 PM
at Ensemble Studio Theatre, NYC.
549 West 52nd Street, 2nd Floor (between 10th and 11th)
RSVP to thehourofallthings@gmail.com
Bio: Caridad Svich (playwright) is recipient of the 2013 National Latino Playwriting Award, 2012 OBIE for Lifetime Achievement, 2012 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award and 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize. Her plays include 12 Ophelias, Iphigenia…a rave fable, The Way of Water, and The House of the Spirits, based on the Isabel Allende novel. She is alumna of New Dramatists, founder of NoPassport theatre alliance and press, and Drama Editor of Asymptote literary journal. She is a member of EST. Visit her athttp://www.caridadsvich.com
Caridad Svich is the guest playwright for NY Madness on October 6, 2013 at IATI Theatre. Visit: www.nymadness.com; Her play THE HOUR OF ALL THINGS receives an invitation-only Tudor City Salon/Missing Bolt Prouductions reading on October 9th in NYC read by Blair C. Baker; Her play SPARK, which co-won the 2013 National Latino Playwriting Award, is read as part of Arizona Theatre Company’s Cafe Bohemia series on October 12 and 13th in Tucson and Phoenix directed by Katherine Monberg. Visit: http://www.arizonatheatre.org/
Caridad Svich’s AFTER YOU LEAVE performs in Edinburgh via Skype from Belgium by actor Kim Snauwaert under Benjamin Mosse’s direction as part of Pop-Up Theatrics Long Distance Affair at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, UK from August 2-25, 2013. For more information: http://www.popuptheatrics.com/
or www.summerhall.co.uk
Sneak Peek trailer:
Caridad Svich’s SPARK will be read at the 2013 Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina on June 5 and 6, 2013. For more information visit: SPARK will also be read as part of Kitchen Dog Theater’s 2013 New Works Festival in Dallas, TX on June 22, 2013 under Christie Vela’s direction. For information visit www.kitchendogtheater.org. An invite-only table reading of her new play ARCHIPELAGO will be held at Primary Stages Studio, NYC on June 11, 2013 under Stephen Wrentmore’s direction.
From May 27-June 2nd, NoPassport theatre alliance & press in collaboration with The Vicious Circle presents Gun Control Theatre Action Week with readings in New York City, Los Angeles, San Diego, South Pasadena, Chicago, Washington D.C., Auckland (New Zealand), Merredin (Western Australia), and Potts Point (New South Wales). For more information visit: www.theatreaction.org
She is online curator for the artistic innovation salon for the 2013 TCG National Conference: Learn, Teach, Do, which will be held from June 6-9, 2013 in Dallas, TX, where she will deliver opening remarks to open the artistic innovation conference track. Meanwhile, the salon is live on the TCG Circle blog.
Also this June she is teaching a playwriting intensive for ScriptWorks in Austin, Texas, and a first draft playwriting class for the Einhorn School of the Arts at Primary Stages in New York City.
Here’s a link with all the info: http://www.primarystages.org/
This volume collects ten years of conversations and critical reflections by OBIE-winning playwright and arts journalist Caridad Svich. Leading artists profiled in this book include Tim Crouch, Ariel Dorfman, Marguerite Feitlowitz, Philip Kan Gotanda, Charles Mee, Jr., Jose Rivera, Andrei Serban,and Heather Woodbury. A vital volume on the art-making process and its power for transformation.
ISBN: 978-1-300-88963-2
Suggested Retail: $25.00
6 X 9 paperback.
435 pages.
Direct purchase link:http://www.lulu.com/shop/
NoPassport Press www.nopassport.org
Caridad Svich’s HIDE SKY receives a roundtable reading at the Lark Play Development Center in New York City on May 1, 2013 directed by Mia Rovegno; short play THE WAKEreceives reading at Theater Simple in Seattle, WA on May 2nd, 2013 as part of NoPassport’s Gun Control Theatre Action directed by Andrew Litzky; short play SHE receives reading with The Artists Playground Theatre at the Players, NY on May 6, 2013 as part of a Women in Theatre Celebration; SPARK receives reading at Bristol Riverside Theatre in Bristol, PA on May 20, 2013 directed by Jose Zayas. For more information: http://www.brtstage.org/