Elizabeth Swados

Born: 1951-02-05

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.


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MaMa's Pushcart

as uncredited
Released: 1988-01-01

With virtually no financial resources, Ellen Stewart created the La Mama theater in New York in...

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The Girl with the Incredible Feeling

as Self
Released: 1977-01-01

A profile of composer, performer, and author Elizabeth Swados, inter-cutting scenes of the...

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