October 2013 News

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/our-shows/cafe-bohemia-2013-14/; IPHIGENIA CRASH LAND FALLS ON THE NEON SHELL THAT WAS ONCE HER HEART (a rave fable) is produced by Delta Boys Theater Company on October 17-19, 24-26 at the Nightlight club in Chapel Hill, NC directed by Rajeev Rajendran. Visit: http://deltaboystheater.weebly.com/THE HOUR OF ALL THINGS is read on October 30th in New York City at Ensemble Studio Theatre directed by Jose Zayas and read by John Hutton (company member, Denver Center Theatre Company). Visit: http:///www.ensemblestudiotheatre.org


June 2013 update for Caridad Svich

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.


THE BREATH OF THEATRE

New April 2013 from NoPassport Press:THE BREATH OF THEATRE
Conversations & Reflections, 2003-2013.
by Caridad Svich

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/caridad-svich/the-breath-of-theatre/paperback/product-20949171.html

NoPassport Press www.nopassport.org

 


May 2013 News

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/category/production-type/america-risingIN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES and LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA run in rep at Repertorio Espanol in New York City, both directed by Jose Zayas. For more information: http://www.repertorio.org/productions/index.php?area=ind&id=160.