Matthew Paul Olmos

Playwright:
Matthew Paul Olmos

Matthew Paul Olmos was most recently awarded the 2012 Princess Grace Award in Playwriting and selected as a 2013 Sundance Institute Resident Playwright at UCROSS. He is a 2012-13 New York Theatre Workshop Emerging Artist Fellow, 2012-13 Primary Stages Dorothy Strelsin New American Writer’s Group playwright; Rising Circle Collective writer, Brooklyn Arts Exchange Resident Artist, previous Sundance Institute Time Warner Storytelling Fellow, and a two-time Resident Artist at Mabou Mines/Suite. He received the BBC International Playwriting Top Prize of the Americas for his play THE NATURE OF CAPTIVITY; soon to be published by Samuel French. His play I PUT THE FEAR OF MEXICO IN’EM world-premiered at TEATRO VISTA in Chicago in fall 2012 and is published by No Passport Press and Samuel French (upcoming). He is currently developing the second and third plays in SO GO THE GHOSTS OF MEXICO as part of his fellowship at New York Theatre Workshop; the first play in the cycle is receiving its world-premiere at La MaMa e.t.c. in April 2013. For more information: www.matthewpaulolmos.com.

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Tommy Smith

Tommy Smith’s plays include PTSD (Ensemble Studio Theatre,  dir. Billy Carden), WHITE HOT (Here Arts Center, dir. May Adrales; West of Lenin, dir. Braden Abraham), PIGEON (Ensemble Studio Theatre,  dir. Billy Carden), THE WIFE (Access Gallery,  dir. May Adrales), SEXTET (Washington Ensemble Theatre, dir. Roger Benington), CARAVAN MAN (Williamstown Theatre Festival, music & lyrics by Gabriel Kahane, dir. Kip Fagan), DEMON DREAMS (Magic Futurebox, music by DJ Spooky, dir. Kevin Laibson), A DAY IN DIG NATION (PS 122, co-written and dir. Michael McQuilken), AIR CONDITIONING (Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference, dir. Steve Cosson), among others.

In addition, his award-winning theatrical collaborations with Reggie Watts played at The Public Theatre, Lamama, The Warhol Museum, MCA Chicago, ICA Boston, On The Boards and PICA: TBA, among others. As a director/writer, Tommy recently created the environmental sound performances, NECTARINE EP (for Flea Theater) LOTUS EATERS EP (for IRT Theater, with voices of Neil Gaiman, Marin Ireland & Reed Birney) and FORTH (for MFB, dir. Meiyin Wang).

Tommy is the recipient of the PONY fellow at The Lark, a two-time winner of the Lecomte du Nouy Prize, a recipient of the E.S.T. Sloan Grant, a winner of the Page73 Productions Playwriting Fellowship, a recipient of the Creative Capital award and a member of the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writer’s Group at Primary Stages. Publications include PIGEON for Dramatists Play Service and WHITE HOT in the New York Theatre Review. His feature film FIGMENT was optioned by Ridley Scott’s production company ScottFree. He is a graduate of the playwriting program at The Juilliard School. He lives in New York City.

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Rachel Carey

Rachel Carey is a playwright, writer and director. Her short films, including Pirates and the award-winning Your Adoring Public, have shown in festivals overseas and the United States. She has published short stories in several literary magazines and anthologies. She developed Phases through workshops with the New York City theater group The Shelter and in working with her cast, her favorite way of creating new work. Phases premiered at the Thespis Theater Festival in Manhattan in Fall 2012, where it received a nomination for Best Play and two Best Actor nominations. She is working on developing her next play, tentatively titled Chronic Lateness, for Spring 2013. She also has a satirical novel, Debt, coming out in January, 2013 through Silver Birch Press.

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Philip Dawkins

Philip Dawkins’ critically-acclaimed play The Homosexuals received a Joseph Jefferson Nomination for New Work after its world premiere with About Face Theatre in the Summer of 2011, under the direction of Bonnie Metzgar.  Further productions are planned for the 2012/13 seasons of The Ringwald Theater in Detroit and ManBites Dog Theater in North Carolina.  His play Failure: A Love Story will receive its world premiere in the Fall of 2012 at Victory Gardens Theater under the direction of Seth Bockley, with a production in Philadelphia at Azuka Theatre in the Summer of 2013.  His new play, Stutter, was commissioned by the Goodman Theater and will received a staged reading in December 2012.  Last Fall, his play Miss Marx or The Involuntary Side Effect of Living received a staged reading as part of Steppenwolf’s First Look Series.  Other credits include NY, CA, Dead Letter Office (Dog and Pony Theatre); Yes to Everything! (Chicago, D.C.); Perfect (The Side Project); Ugly Baby (Chicago Opera Vanguard/Strawdog Theatre Company); A Still Life in Color (T.U.T.A. Company); Saguaro (Estrogen Fest; Estrogenius Festival, NY; 16th Street Theatre, Berwyn; Painted Filly, Ireland.).  His plays for young folks have been performed all over the world and are published through Playscripts, Inc.  A graduate of Loyola University, Chicago, Philip is an Artistic Associate of About Face Theatre, a Resident Playwright at Victory Gardens, and a founding member, with artistic partner Eric C. Reda, of Chicago Opera Vanguard.  Philip teaches playwriting at Northwestern University and through the Victory Gardens ACCESS Program for writers with disabilities.  He also teaches Kung Fu to little, tiny, children through Rising Phoenix Kung Fu.  Hi-Yah!

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Caridad Svich

Caridad Svich is a US Latina playwright, translator, lyricist and editor whose works have been presented across the US and abroad at diverse venues, including Denver Center Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Repertorio Espanol, 59E59, McCarren Park Pool, 7 Stages, Salvage Vanguard Theatre, Teatro Mori (Santiago, Chile), ARTheater (Cologne), and Edinburgh Fringe Festival/UK. She received a 2012 OBIE Award for Lifetime Achievement in the theatre, and the 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize for her play The House of the Spirits, based on the novel by Isabel Allende. She has been short-listed for the PEN Award in Drama three times, including in the year 2010 for her play Instructions for Breathing.  Among her key works: 12 Ophelias, Alchemy of Desire/Dead-Man’s Blues, Any Place But Here, Iphigenia…a rave fable, Fugitive Pieces, The Way of Water and the multimedia collaboration The Booth Variations.

Upcoming Productions in the 2012-13 season:

  • GUAPA receives a rolling world premiere courtesy of NNPN at Borderlands Theater in Arizona, Miracle Theatre in Oregon and Phoenix Theater in Indiana
  • Love in the Time of Cholera, based on the novel by Garcia Marquez, will premiere at Repertorio Espanol in NYC
  • The Tropic of X will receive its English-language premiere at Single Carrot Theatre in Baltimore
  • Mixed Blood in Minneapolis presents the regional premiere of In the Time of the Butterflies (based on the novel by Julia Alvarez)
  • The House of the Spirits receives a regional premiere at Gala Hispanic Theatre in Washington D.C.
  • Her fantasia on 1963, Pop culture and the Kennedy assassination, The Archaeology of Dreams, receives its academic premiere at the University of Nebraska — Omaha

Svich has been profiled in American Theatre and The Huffington Post, among others. She has edited several books on theatre including Out of Silence: Censorship in Theatre & Performance (Eyecorner Press), Trans-Global Readings and Theatre in Crisis? (both for Manchester University Press) and Divine Fire (BackStage Books). She has translated nearly all of Federico Garcia Lorca’s plays and also dramatic works by Julio Cortazar, Lope de Vega, Calderon de la Barca, Antonio Buero Vallejo and contemporary plays from Mexico, Cuba and Catalonia. Svich is alumna playwright of New Dramatists, founder of NoPassport theatre alliance & press (http://www.nopassport.org), Drama Editor of Asymptote journal of literary translation, associate editor of Routledge/UK’s Contemporary Theatre Review and contributing editor of TheatreForum. She holds an MFA in Theatre-Playwriting from UCSD, and has taught creative writing and playwriting at Bard College, Barnard College, Bennington College, Ohio State University, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, and Yale School of Drama. She is an entry in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Latino Literature.

Website: www.caridadsvich.com

Agent:
Elaine Devlin Literary, Inc.
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Caridad Svich