Caridad Svich

Svich sustains a career as a theatrical translator as well, mainly of the dramatic work of Federico García Lorca. She has received fellowships from Harvard/Radcliffe, NEA/TCG, PEW Charitable Trust, and California Arts Council. She holds an MFA in Theatre-Playwriting from UCSD, and she has also trained for four consecutive years with Maria Irene Fornes in INTAR’s legendary HPRL Lab. She teaches creative writing and playwriting at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and Primary Stages’ Einhorn School of Performing Arts. She has taught playwriting at Bard, Barnard, Bennington, Denison, Ohio State, ScriptWorks, UCSD, and Yale School of Drama.

She is the co-organizer and curator of After Orlando which was an international theatre action in response to the 2016 shooting at Pulse nightclub. After Orlando featured a collection of readings and other short works being performed. Each performance lasted between 3-5 minutes. They had over 40 theatrical institutions and universities nationwide and abroad sign on to participate.

2012 Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Drama

2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize

2009 Lee Reynolds Award, League of Professional Theatre Women

2009 HOLA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting

2004, Selected for inclusion Oxford Encyclopedia of Latino History

2002-2003 Harvard University Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellow

2002-2003 TCG/Pew Charitable Trust National Theatre Artist Residency

Caridad Svich (born July 30, 1963) is a playwright, songwriter/lyricist, translator, and editor who was born in the United States of Cuban-Argentine-Spanish-Croatian parents.