SEGAL TALKS Caridad Svich on Friday 17 July 2020

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presents SEGAL TALKS: Caridad Svich livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 17 July 2020 at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 17:00 BST (London, UTC +1) / 18:00 CEST (Berlin, UTC +2). Caridad Svich received the 2012 OBIE for Lifetime Achievement and the 2011 ATCA Primus Prize for The House of the Spirits, based on Isabel Allende's novel, and NNPN rolling world premieres for RED BIKE and GUAPA. Her plays & performance texts, in English and Spanish, focus on human and environmental rights, gender fluidity, incantatory speech acts and hybridity. She has written several books on theatre, among them Fifty Playwrights on Their Craft (Methuen Drama, 2018), and Mitchell & Trask's Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Routledge, 2019). She is founder of NoPassport, associate editor at Contemporary Theatre Review (Routledge, UK), and on the advisory board of Global Performance Studies. Her first feature film (as co-screenwriter) Fugitive Dreams, based on her play, stars April Matthis and Scott Shepard, and premieres at the 2020 Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal later this summer. ABOUT SEGAL TALKS: SEGAL TALKS is a daily one-hour LIVE online conversation from Monday to Friday about making art and making sense in the Time of Corona. SEGAL TALKS was conceived, created and curated by Frank Hentschker in March 2020. SEGAL TALKS has been made possible by the support of Susan and Jack Rudin, the Hearst Foundation, and Marvin Carlson, Sidney E. Cohn Chair, The Graduate Center CUNY. https://howlround.com/happenings/live...