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If we make well-crafted plays that express the essence of what it is to be human, then theatre will have a future...
Raymond Bobgan, Artistic Director, Cleveland Public Theatre
AT25: An Eye on the Future, American Theatre, April 2009

Playwrights Born in July

July 14th, 2010

Caridad Svich
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Birthday Unknown

…I write for the body in space, and I write for the voice in space—so it’s not meant to be literary; you’re not supposed to get it in readings. You’re supposed to get it in performance. That’s what plays are supposed to be. They’re meant to be performed.

Cartography Lessons with Caridad Svich, by Justin Maxwell, American Theatre Magazine, July/August 2009

Other playwrights born in July include:

Aphra Behn
Wye, England
10 July 1640

Susan Keating Glaspell
Davenport, Iowa, USA
1 July 1876

Jean Kerr
Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
10 July 1922

Ann Jellicoe
Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England
15 July 1927

Nathalie Sarraute
Ivanovo-Voznesensk (near Moscow)
18 July 1902

Rosie Malek-Yonan
Tehran, Iran
4 July 1965

And someone else
who is
unknown to us.

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