Caridad Svich, Playwriting

Svich is a playwright-songwriter-translator and editor of Cuban-Spanish, Argentine and Croatian descent. She is the recipient of a Harvard University Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Bunting fellowship, a TCG/Pew National Theatre Artist Grant, and has been twice short-listed for the PEN USA-West Award in Drama. Recent premieres include Iphigenia, a rave fable at 7 Stages in Atlanta, Antigone Arkhe at The Women's Project/NY, her multimedia collaboration (with Todd Cerveris and Nick Philipppou), The Booth Variations at 59 East 59th Street Theatre/NY and 2005 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and her version of Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba at the Pearl Theatre/NY. Other key plays include Alchemy of Desire/Dead-Man's Blues, Any Place But Here, Fugitive Pieces, and Twelve Ophelias (a play with broken songs). She has also translated Federico Garcia Lorca's major and minor plays, and works by Calderon de la Barca, Julio Cortazar, and Ugljesa Satinac. She is resident playwright of New Dramatists. She is on the editorial committee of Contemporary Theatre Review (Routledge/UK), and contributing editor of TheatreForum. She has been selected for inclusion in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Latino History. She is editor of Trans-global Readings: Crossing Theatrical Boundaries (Manchester University Press), and Divine Fire: Eight Contemporary Plays Inspired by the Greeks (BackStage Books). She is co-editor of Conducting a Life: Reflections on the Theatre of Maria Irene Fornes (Smith & Kraus), Out of the Fringe: Contemporary Latina/o Tehatre & Performance (TCG), and Theatre in Crisis? (MUP/Palgrave). Some of her translations are collected in Federico Garcia Lorca: Impossible Theater (Smith & Kraus). She holds a MFA from UCSD. Svich will be a visiting faculty member at Bennington for the spring term of 2006.