Lee Reynolds Award 2009 - Caridad Svich

Founder of NoPassport Theatre Alliance

Introduction and award presented by Randy Gener.

Randy Gener presents Caridad Svich with the 2009 Lee Reynolds Award

Co- President Naomi Grabel, Randy Gener, Caridad Svich and Co-President Rachel Reiner

Caridad Svich is a playwright-lyricist-translator and editor of Cuban-Spanish-Argentine-Croatian descent. She was profiled in the July/August 2009 issue of American Theatre magazine. She’s received, among others, a Harvard University Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Bunting fellowship, TCG/Pew National Theatre Artist Grant, short-listed twice for the PEN USA-West Award in Drama and is featured in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Latino Literature. 2009 premieres: her adaptation of Allende’s The House of the Spirits at Repertorio Espanol/NY (winner of 7 HOLA Awards including Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting), and Main Street Theater/TX. Instructions for Breathing at Passage Theatre/NJ, and Wreckage at Crowded Fire Theatre/CA, mid-west premiere of 12 Ophelias at TrapDoor Theatre/IL. In development: new play commission from Mark Wing-Davey and NYU’s Graduate Acting Program scheduled for production at Tisch School of the Arts December 2009 under Seret Scott’s direction. Other recent premieres: free adaptation/translation of Lope de Vega’s erotic comedy The Labyrinth of Desire at Miracle Theatre/OR; 12 Ophelias in a site-responsive Woodshed Collective production at McCarren Park Pool in Brooklyn; The Tropic of X at ARTheater-Cologne (Germany); Thrush at Salvage Vanguard Theatre/TX; US adaptation of the Serbian dark comedy Huddersfield as a TUTA production at Victory Gardens Theatre/IL, Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell That Was Once Her Heart (a rave fable) at 7 Stages/GA, and Son of Semele/CA; translation of Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba at Pearl Theatre/NY; multimedia collaboration The Booth Variations at 59 East 59th Street Theatre/NY and Edinburgh Fringe Festival/UK. She holds an MFA in Theatre-Playwriting from UCSD. She is alumna playwright of New Dramatists, contributing editor of TheatreForum, associate editor of Contemporary Theatre Review (Routledge/UK), affiliate artist of New Georges, and founder of NoPassport international theatre alliance and press. Web: www.caridadsvich.com.

Photos from the Awards Event provided by Harriet Slaughter