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Caridad Svich
Caridad Svich (/svɪtʃ/ SVITCH; born July 30, 1963) is an American playwright, songwriter/lyricist, translator, and editor born to Cuban-Argentine-Spanish-Croatian parents.
Svich was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 30, 1963. She is of a mixed-race background encompassing Cuban, Croatian, Argentine, and Spanish lineage. Her Argentine father, Emilio, and her Cuban mother, Aracely, both came to the United States via Yugoslavia. She spent the majority of her childhood living in New Jersey and Miami, Florida. While a third grade student at St. Gerard Majella School in Paterson, New Jersey she won first prize in a 1972 art contest for school children sponsored by the Paterson Museum.
In her youth, Svich developed an interest in writing, and at the age of 14 she decided to pursue a career as a playwright when her attempts at fiction and poetry demonstrated a proclivity towards dialogue. This initial interest in play writing was sparked by the encouragement of her junior high school English teacher who originally suggested to her that she might enjoy play writing. She saw her first professional play in New York at the age 16, and from that point penned two full length plays a year during her high school and college years. Prior to college, she relocated with her family to Charlotte, North Carolina where she attended Charlotte Country Day School during her high school years.
Svich earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) in 1985. In her sophomore year at UNCC she won Goucher College's Open Circle Playwriting Award, a national competitive prize, for her three act play Waterfall (complete April 1982) which included both a cash prize and a staging of her play by the Goucher's drama department. In her senior year she portrayed Queen Aggravain in UNCC's production of the musical Once Upon a Mattress.
In 1985 Svich won a two year scholarship to the Professional Theatre Training Program at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). In April 1986 her play Winter in July was staged as a part of UCSD's New Play Festival (NPF) at the Arthur Wagner Theatre with a cast led by actor Ivan G'Vera. At the 1987 NPF her play Proper Positions was performed. In her third year of the graduate playwriting program at UCSD her graduate thesis play, Brazo Gitano, was performed. It deals with both magic and Cuban-American music in a consequential fashion, and incorporates Santería beliefs. The play examines the difficulties of assimilation by the children of immigrants in America. This play was also staged at Wagner College in 1988 and was the recipient of the 1989 Stanley Drama Award.
Svich graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree from UCSD in 1988. While a student at UCSD, she held a playwright residency at La Jolla Playhouse. In 1988 she moved to New York City (NYC) where she attended play writing workshops taught by María Irene Fornés. In 2002-2003 she was a Bunting Institute Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.
Svich has written over forty full-length plays and fifteen translations as well as other short works. At least 15 of her plays have been published in theatre anthologies. including in Shattering the Myth: Plays by Hispanic Women (1992, Arte Público Press) and Little Festival of the Unexpected (2002, Stage & Screen). Her plays have had professional stagings in the United States, Germany, Italy, Scotland, and England, and have also been staged at numerous universities.
In her early career, Svich held a series of playwright residencies in New York; holding posts at INTAR Theatre (1988-1990), Women's Project Theater (1991, 2004, & 2007), Theatre Communications Group (NYC), the Lake Placid Institute for the Arts, and New Dramatists (NYC). Other residencies she had held during her career include ones at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, the South Coast Repertory company (1990), the Playwrights' Center in Minnesota, the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland (1998), and several playwright-in-residence posts an American universities, including Harvard University and the Yale School of Drama.
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Caridad Svich
Caridad Svich (/svɪtʃ/ SVITCH; born July 30, 1963) is an American playwright, songwriter/lyricist, translator, and editor born to Cuban-Argentine-Spanish-Croatian parents.
Svich was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 30, 1963. She is of a mixed-race background encompassing Cuban, Croatian, Argentine, and Spanish lineage. Her Argentine father, Emilio, and her Cuban mother, Aracely, both came to the United States via Yugoslavia. She spent the majority of her childhood living in New Jersey and Miami, Florida. While a third grade student at St. Gerard Majella School in Paterson, New Jersey she won first prize in a 1972 art contest for school children sponsored by the Paterson Museum.
In her youth, Svich developed an interest in writing, and at the age of 14 she decided to pursue a career as a playwright when her attempts at fiction and poetry demonstrated a proclivity towards dialogue. This initial interest in play writing was sparked by the encouragement of her junior high school English teacher who originally suggested to her that she might enjoy play writing. She saw her first professional play in New York at the age 16, and from that point penned two full length plays a year during her high school and college years. Prior to college, she relocated with her family to Charlotte, North Carolina where she attended Charlotte Country Day School during her high school years.
Svich earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) in 1985. In her sophomore year at UNCC she won Goucher College's Open Circle Playwriting Award, a national competitive prize, for her three act play Waterfall (complete April 1982) which included both a cash prize and a staging of her play by the Goucher's drama department. In her senior year she portrayed Queen Aggravain in UNCC's production of the musical Once Upon a Mattress.
In 1985 Svich won a two year scholarship to the Professional Theatre Training Program at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). In April 1986 her play Winter in July was staged as a part of UCSD's New Play Festival (NPF) at the Arthur Wagner Theatre with a cast led by actor Ivan G'Vera. At the 1987 NPF her play Proper Positions was performed. In her third year of the graduate playwriting program at UCSD her graduate thesis play, Brazo Gitano, was performed. It deals with both magic and Cuban-American music in a consequential fashion, and incorporates Santería beliefs. The play examines the difficulties of assimilation by the children of immigrants in America. This play was also staged at Wagner College in 1988 and was the recipient of the 1989 Stanley Drama Award.
Svich graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree from UCSD in 1988. While a student at UCSD, she held a playwright residency at La Jolla Playhouse. In 1988 she moved to New York City (NYC) where she attended play writing workshops taught by María Irene Fornés. In 2002-2003 she was a Bunting Institute Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.
Svich has written over forty full-length plays and fifteen translations as well as other short works. At least 15 of her plays have been published in theatre anthologies. including in Shattering the Myth: Plays by Hispanic Women (1992, Arte Público Press) and Little Festival of the Unexpected (2002, Stage & Screen). Her plays have had professional stagings in the United States, Germany, Italy, Scotland, and England, and have also been staged at numerous universities.
In her early career, Svich held a series of playwright residencies in New York; holding posts at INTAR Theatre (1988-1990), Women's Project Theater (1991, 2004, & 2007), Theatre Communications Group (NYC), the Lake Placid Institute for the Arts, and New Dramatists (NYC). Other residencies she had held during her career include ones at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, the South Coast Repertory company (1990), the Playwrights' Center in Minnesota, the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland (1998), and several playwright-in-residence posts an American universities, including Harvard University and the Yale School of Drama.