Caridad Svich Home Page
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Caridad Svich Home Page
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Contact:
Playwright-Songwriter-Editor-Translator
New Dramatists
424 West 44th Street
NYC 10036
Tel: 212-757-6960
Fax: 212-265-4738
E-mail: newdramatists@newdramatists.org
E-mail for script inquiries: csvichplays@aol.com
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Credits
Caridad Svich's plays have been called
"exhilarating," "haunting," "Poetic," "savage,"
and "evocative"
by critics across the US and abroad.
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Full-length Plays include:
IPHIGENIA CRASH LAND FALLS ON THE NEON SHELL THAT WAS ONCE HER HEART (a rave fable),
ALCHEMY OF DESIRE/DEAD-MAN'S BLUES (a play with songs),
FUGITIVE PIECES (a play with songs),
PRODIGAL KISS (a play with songs),
BRAZO GITANO (a play with songs),
TWELVE OPHELIAS (a play with broken songs),
PERDITA GRACIA (inspired by Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale),
ANY PLACE BUT HERE,
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF DREAMS,
GLEANING/REBUSCA,
MAGNIFICENT WASTE,
LULU ASCENDING,
TILT HEAVEN
THE TROPIC OF X
THE SPELL OF EDEN,
PENSACOLA,
CALCULATING GENESIS,
STEAL BACK LIGHT FROM THE VIRTUAL,
TRANSMISSION 0500/TO THE BLUE PENINSULA,
SLOW FAST WALKING ON THE RED EYE,
TURN THE DARK UP BOW DOWN THIS IS A HYMN,
SOMETHING SIMPLE, PLAIN-SPOKEN,
THE BOOTH VARIATIONS (a text/media collaboration);
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Translations include:
BLOOD WEDDING,
DONA ROSITA,OR THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS
AS FIVE YEARS PASS,
THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA,
THE SHOEMAKER'S PRODIGIOUS WIFE,
LOVE OF DON PERLIMPLIN FOR BELISA IN THE GARDEN,
HAVANA UNDER THE SEA,
FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY,
THE MONSTER IN THE GARDEN,
and others.
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Recent and Upcoming Activity:
world premiere of
IPHIGENIA...a rave fable
at 7 Stages, Atlanta, Georgia
January-February 2004
visit: www.7stages.org
script published in THEATREFORUM, Issue 25.
www.theatreforum.org
production of
TWELVE OPHELIAS (a play with broken songs)
March-April 2004
at Baruch Performing Arts Center, New York City
visit: www.baruch.cuny.edu/bpac
production (world premiere) of
FUGITIVE PIECES (a play with songs)
at Kitchen Dog Theater in Dallas, Texas
June 2000;also produced subsequently at Cleveland Public Theatre, Ohio, and Salvage Vanguard Theatre, Austin, Texas.
songs available on the CD SVT LIVE 2001-2002
available at www.salvagevanguard.org
script published in THEATREFORUM (2002)
visit www.theatreforum.org
winner of 2003 National Latino Playwriting Award
for play MAGNIFICENT WASTE
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Selected fellowships/residencies/awards:
Bunting fellowship from Harvard/Radcliffe;
TCG/Pew National Theatre Artist Residency;
Perishable Theatre Scholar in Residence;
Jonathan R. Reynolds Playwright in Residence at Denison University;
Thurber House fellowship at Ohio State University;
NEA/TCG Playwriting Residency;
Rosenthal New Play Prize
EST/Sloan Project commission
shortlisted for Prism International Prize in Drama
and PEN USA WEST award for Drama.
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Works in Print:
TRANS-GLOBAL READINGS: CROSSING THEATRICAL BOUNDARIES
conversations on media, culture, language and performance
edited by Caridad Svich
(Manchester University Press, UK,
and Palgrave Macmillan, US)
ISBN# 0-7190-6325-6 paperback
www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
www.palgrave-usa.com
OUT OF THE FRINGE:
CONTEMPORARY LATINA/O THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE
(includes the play ALCHEMY OF DESIRE/DEAD-MAN'S BLUES)
co-edited by Caridad Svich and Maria Teresa Marrero (TCG Books, NYC or Nick Hern Books, London) ISBN# 1-55936-171-9;
CONDUCTING A LIFE:
REFLECTIONS ON THE THEATRE OF MARIA IRENE FORNES
co-edited by Maria Delgado and Caridad Svich
(Smith & Kraus Publishers, USA)
ISBN# 1-57525-204-X.
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA: IMPOSSIBLE THEATER
Five plays and thirteen poems in new translations
by Caridad Svich
(Smith & Kraus Publishers)
ISBN# 1-57525-228-7;
PRODIGAL KISS (a play with songs)
published in BEST NEW PLAYS BY NEW PLAYWRIGHTS
Smith & Kraus Publishers
ISBN# 1-57525-225-2;
BUT THERE ARE FIRES
published in
WOMEN'S PROJECT & PRODUCTIONS ROWING TO AMERICA AND SIXTEEN OTHER SHORT PLAYS
edited by Julia Miles
1975-1999 (Smith & Kraus Publishers)
ISBN# 1-57525-271-6;
THEATRE IN CRISIS: PERFORMANCE MANIFESTOS FOR A NEW CENTURY co-edited by Maria Delgado and Caridad Svich (Manchester University Press/UK);
ISBN# 0-7190-6291-8, 256pp.
FUGITIVE PIECES (a play with songs)
with introduction by Matthew Maguire
in THEATREFORUM international journal
published by UCSD Dept of Dance & Theatre
(summer/fall 2002);
BRAZO GITANO
with accompanying author interview
in OLLANTAY THEATER JOURNAL (NYC)
for copies contact: ollantaypm@aol.com;
ANY PLACE BUT HERE
is published by Playscripts Inc.
at www.playscripts.com
SCAR (a solo piece)
in LATINAS ON STAGE
eds. Alicia Arrizon and Lillian Manzor
(Third Woman Press)
ISBN# 1943219176
contact: info@thirdwomanpress.com;
GLEANING/REBUSCA in
SHATTERING THE MYTH ed. Linda Feyder
(Arte Publico Press)
ISBN# 1-55885-041-4;
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF DREAMS
in LITTLE FESTIVAL OF THE UNEXPECTED (plays from PORTLAND STAGE)
published by Stage and Screen, 2002;
short pieces
COME BURNING
LOST POSTCARDS
TORN LIMB
and essay/manifesto "A Good Fast"
published in www.hotreview.org
edited by Jonathan Kalb
"Home, Desire, Memory: There Are No Borders Here"
in PURO TEATRO
eds. Alberto Sandoval & Nancy Sternbach
(University of Arizona Press)
ISBN# 0-8165-1827-0;
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www.newdramatists.org
www.magdalenaproject.org
www.smithkraus.com
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www.wtamericas.com/facultybio.html
www.amazon.com
www.amazon.co.uk
www.evanalexander.com
http://cincyplay.com/rosenthal-new-play-prize.html
www.alexanderstreetpress.com
www.theatreforum.org
www.salvagevanguard.org
www.7stages.org
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