Caridad Svich

For Minotaur

Caridad Svich is a 2024 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow in Drama & Performance Art.. Her plays and translations have been produced across the US and abroad. Of Cuban-Argentine- Spanish-Croatian descent, her work centers on environmental and human rights, examines the poetics and politics of resistance, and often radically reconfigures the classics. Key pieces include 12 Ophelias, Iphigenia Crash Land Falls…, Red Bike, and The House of the Spirits (based on Isabel Allende’s novel). Among her honors: Flora Roberts Award (The Dramatists Guild), Obie for Lifetime Achievement, Ellen Stewart Career Achievement Award (ATHE), American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize, Edgerton Foundation New Play Award, and a Harvard/Radcliffe Institute Fellowship. They have authored/edited several books including Toward a Future Theatre (Methuen Drama), Audience Revolution (TCG), and Federico Garcia Lorca: Impossible Theatre (Smith & Kraus). They are also published by TRW Plays, Broadway Play Publishing, Intellect Books, and more. As a screenwriter, the feature film Fugitive Dreams is streaming on Apple Tv and Amazon Prime.

Website: https://caridadsvich.com

Instagram: @Csvich