Caridad Svich

Caridad Svich has received a 2018 Tanne Foundation Award, 2012 OBIE Award for Lifetime Achievement in the theatre, 2018 NNPN rolling world premiere for RED BIKE, a 2012 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award for Guapa, and the 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize for her play The House of the Spirits, based on Isabel Allende’s novel. She has edited several books on theatre including Fifty Playwrights on Their Craft (Methuen Drama, 2017), Audience Revolution: Dispatches from the Field (TCG, 2016), Innovation in Five Acts (TCG, 2015), Out of Silence: Censorship in Theatre & Performance and Trans-Global Readings: Crossing Theatrical Boundaries and Theatre in Crisis? (the latter two for Manchester University Press, UK). She is alumna playwright of New Dramatists. She is an affiliated artist at the Lark, New Georges and Woodshed Collective, and lifetime member of Ensemble Studio Theatre.