Caridad Svich is a playwright, associate editor of Contemporary Theatre Review and founder of NoPassport theatre alliance and press. She received a 2012 OBIE Award for Lifetime Achievement and the 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize for The House of the Spirits.She has edited several books on theatre including Audience Revolution and Innovation in Five Acts (2016 and 2015), Out of Silence: Censorship in Theatre & Performance (2014), and Trans-Global Readings (2004).VanessaI Corredera is the author of Reanimating Shakespeare’s Othello in Post-Racial America(2022). Her scholarship focuses on the intersections between Shakespeare, race and representation in contemporary popular culture, adaptations/appropriations and performance .With L. Monique Pittman and Geoffrey Way, she edited Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation.Katherine Gillen is the author of Chaste Value: Economic Crisis, Female Chastity, and the Production of Social Difference on Shakespeare’s Stage (2017). She is co-editing The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera and Shakespeare and the Politics of Tradaptation (2025). Kathryn Vomero Santos is the author of the book Shakespeare in Tongues and co-editor of Ethical Appropriations in Shakespearean Performance (2024) and Shakespeare and the Politics of Tradaptation(2025). She is also co-editing The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera.

• Notes on ContributorsEditors’ AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Restorative Power of Caridad Svich’s Shakespearean Refractions12 Ophelias (a play with broken songs)Perdita Gracia Holler RiverDesdemona’s Child (blood cry) The Breath of Stars Publication History