Caridad Svich

Bio: Caridad Svich first independent feature film (as co-screenwriter) Fugitive Dreams, based on her play, receives its world premiere at the 2020 Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal and its US premiere at the 2020 Austin Film Festival. The film stars April Matthis, Robbie Tann, Scott Shepard, O-Lan Jones and David Patrick Kelly and is directed by Jason Neulander. She has received the 2012 OBIE for Lifetime Achievement, 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize for The House of the Spirits, based on Isabel Allende’s novel, and NNPN rolling world premieres for RED BIKE and Guapa.  Her works in English and Spanish have been produced internationally. Other key plays in her repertoire include 12 Ophelias, Iphigenia Crash Land Falls, and The Way of Water. A significant body of her work focuses on human and environmental rights and the ‘fragile shores’ upon which many of us live. She also sustains a parallel career as a theatrical translator, chiefly known for her translations of the plays of Federico Garcia Lorca; she has also adapted for the stage works by Julia Alvarez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Rosario Ferre, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez; she is founder of NoPassport theatre alliance and press, and is associate editor of Contemporary Theatre Review for Routledge UK. She is published by TCG, Methuen Drama, and Intellect UK, among others. Her most recent book is on Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Routledge 4th Wall Series). She is an alumna playwright of New Dramatists, member of Ensemble Studio Theatre, and an affiliated artist with The Lark, New Georges and Woodshed Collective.   

Events: Day of Translation (2020)