The Playwright

Born in the United States of Cuban-Argentine-Spanish-Croatian heritage, Svich brings a hybrid sensibility to her plays. For Svich, however, that sensibilty which she describes as "bilingual, multicultural, female" is always in flux. Svich works with a variety of structural forms and theatrical styles, such as poetry, music, ritual and aspects of traditional Western dramatic structure in her plays. As in Alchemy/Blues, her plays often explore contradictory impulses such as the longing to find home and the desire to run away from home.*

Svich has been the recipient of a Thurber House Fellowship, an NEA/TCG Playwriting Residency, a TCG/Pew Observership Grant, and a Royal Court Theatre/ASK Theater Projects Playwrights Exchange. Her other plays include: Any Place But Here, staged at New York's Theater for the New City; The Archeology of Dreams; Prodigal Kiss; and Fugitive Pieces among others. Svich is also an editor, translator, and songwriter. A complete list of her productions and publications is available at her home page.

* Svich, Caridad. "The Writer Speaks." Out of the Fringe: Contemporary Latina/Latino Theatre and Performance. Eds. Caridad Svich and Maria Teresa Marrero. (New York: TCG, 2000) 395.