DREAMING A PLAY: FAST FIRST DRAFT

Nationally recognized playwright Caridad Svich, of Salvage Vanguard Theatre’s Fugitive Pieces, Thrush, and Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell That Was Once Her Heart (a rave fable), guides you through a group and individual writing process to write a fast first draft of a new play in five weeks.

Open yourself to diving into character work and structuring new writing, reading different models, and applying them to thinking about live performance using methodology geared toward creative visualization, dreaming, and re-mapping dramaturgical strategies for the stage.

Caridad Svich received a 2012 OBIE for Lifetime Achievement. She is a playwright, translator, lyricist, poet, essayist, editor, and educator. Her plays have been seen across the US and abroad. Among them are Iphigenia Crash Land Falls…, The House of the Spirits, Jarman (all this maddening beauty) and De Troya, which premiered at Cara Mia Theatre in Dallas in 2019. Her play Red Bike is the recipient of a 2018 NNPN Rolling World Premiere. She co-wrote the screenplay for the adaptation of her play, Fugitive Pieces (now called Fugitive Dreams), with director Jason Neulander. The film has appeared at Fantasia International Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, Manchester Film Festival, and Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Svich is editor of three books published by TCG: Audience Revolution, Innovation in Five Acts and Out of the Fringe as well as volumes from Manchester University Press, Smith & Kraus, Eyecorner Press, and more. Her play Ushuaia Blue will premiere at the Contemporary American theatre festival. Visit her at www.caridadsvich.com