Elizabeth Swados

Personal Info

Known For

Writing

Known Credits

0.5249

Gender

Female

Birthday

05-Feb-1951

Age

(75 years old)

Place of Birth

Buffalo, NY

Also Known As
  • NO INFO PROVIDED

Elizabeth Swados

Biography

Elizabeth Swados was an American writer, composer, musician, and theatre director. Swados received Tony Award nominations for Best Musical, Best Direction of a Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score, and Best Choreography. She was nominated for Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Director of a Musical, Outstanding Lyrics, and Outstanding Music, and won an Obie Award for her direction of 'Runaways' in 1978. In 1980, the Hobart and William Smith Colleges awarded her an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters.


Credits

MaMa's Pushcart MaMa's Pushcart (1988) Character: N/A
With virtually no financial resources, Ellen Stewart created the La Mama theater in New York in 1961, where writers and actors such as Sam Shepard, Elizabeth Swados, and Harvey Fierstein found both encouragement and a home for their work. Includes footage from the early days, interviews and brief excerpts from some of the theater works. Stewart also talks about her experiences as a "colored" working at Saks Fifth Avenue between 1950 and 1957
The Girl with the Incredible Feeling The Girl with the Incredible Feeling (1977) Character: Self
A profile of composer, performer, and author Elizabeth Swados, inter-cutting scenes of the artist at work and in travel with personal reflections and animated depictions of her stories.
Brook par Brook Brook par Brook (2002) Character: Self
An intimate portrait of director Peter Brook by his son, Simon Brook.



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