Caridad Svich
Biography:
Caridad Svich is a playwright, screenwriter, translator, editor, lyricist, essayist, educator and freelance arts journalist.
She has received the 2012 OBIE for Lifetime Achievement, the 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. A significant body of her work focuses on human and environmental rights and the ‘fragile shores’ upon which many of us live. She also works as a theatrical translator, chiefly known for her translations of Federico Garcia Lorca; she has also adapted for the stage novels by Julia Alvarez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Rosario Ferre, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez; as well as radically reconfiguring works by Shakespeare, Euripides, Sophocles and Wedekind.
PIP Credits: Playwright - The House of the Spirits
