Writing
Elizabeth Swados
Born 1951-02-05 · Buffalo, NY
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.
Acting credits
8.0An intimate portrait of director Peter Brook by his son, Simon Brook.
Brook by Brook
2002
NRWith 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
MaMa's Pushcart
1988
NRA 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.
The Girl with the Incredible Feeling
1977
Behind the camera
7.4Based on Elizabeth Swados’ picture book of the same name, this animated short film charts one woman's struggle with depression.
My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It)
2014
7.4Based on Elizabeth Swados’ picture book of the same name, this animated short film charts one woman's struggle with depression.
My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It)
2014
NRA 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.
The Girl with the Incredible Feeling
1977