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"...a transfixing vision of hell on earth, buttressed by Svich's fractured poetic voice and her unblinking laser gaze...the most assured and sophisticated production I've seen from Halcyon" ***
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About Caridad
Caridad Svich is a US Latina -translator-lyricist and editor of Cuban-Argentine-Spanish-Croatian descent whose works have been staged across the US and abroad at diverse venues including Denver Theatre Center, Mixed Blood Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Artheater-Cologne and Edinburgh Fringe Festival/UK. In Chicago, she's worked with the Latino Theatre Festival at the Goodman, TUTA, Trap Door, Caffeine Theatre, Latino Chicago, Teatro Vista, Northwestern University. Most recently, her play Iphigenia...a rave fable, was produced by Halycon. Among her key works: 12 Ophelias, Any Place But Here, Alchemy of Desire/Dead-Man's Blues, Magnificent Waste and The House of the Spirits (based on the novel by Isabel Allende). She's alumna playwright of New Dramatists, founder of NoPassport theatre alliance & press, contributing editor of TheatreForum, and associate editor of Contemporary Theatre Review. She holds an MFA from UCSD. Visit her website: www.caridadsvich.com
More Articles and Background info
Juárez's Dead Girls: De-romanticizing feminicidio in Caridad Svich's Iphigenia From Gender Across Borders
Cartography Lessons with Caridad Svich: The ancient and the contemporary collide in the dreamscapes of her plays from American Theatre Magazine
The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Iphigenia from The Brooklyn Rail
Contemporary American Playwrighting: The Issue of Legacy--
Euripides' Children: Notes on Iphigenia... a rave fable by Caridad Svich
