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About
Caraid O'Brien was born in Galway, Ireland. She is a three time recipient of a new play commission from the
Foundation for Jewish Culture for her translations of Yiddish plays. The director of numerous Bloomsday broadcasts (Bloomsday on Broadway, Radio Bloomsday), Caraid performed the complete Molly Bloom monologue and is a guest host for The Next Hour on WBAI. As an actress, she has appeared in numerous productions with the Obie award winning theater company, Todo con Nada including leading roles in her translations of the Sholem Asch Underworld Trilogy: God of Vengeance, Motke Thief and The Dead Man. Caraid has lectured on theater at universities and
institutions throughout the US and her essays and reviews have appeared
in books, magazines, newspapers, on the radio and online. She lives in NYC.