Innovation in Five Acts Strategies for Theatre and Performance

Caridad Svich received the 2012 OBIE for Lifetime Achievement, the 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize and has won the National Latino Playwriting Award sponsored by Arizona Theatre Company twice, including in the year 2013. Among her key works are 12 Ophelias, Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell That Was Once Her Heart and The House of the Spirits (based on the Isabel Allende novel). Two collections of her plays are published by Seagull Books and Eyecorner Press. She has also edited several books on theatre and performance for TCG, Manchester University Press, BackStage Books, and Smith & Kraus. She is an alumna of New Dramatists, founder of NoPassport theatre alliance & press, and associate editor of Contemporary Theatre Review for Routledge, UK.