Elizabeth Swados

1951 - 2016

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.

Фильмы

My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It)

Elizabeth Swados, Robert Marianetti

Сигурни Уивер, Steve Buscemi

Based 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)

6.5 ⚠️ 2014

США, мультфильм

Alice at the Palace

Elizabeth Swados, Emile Ardolino

Meryl Streep, Betty Aberlin

Meryl Streep stars as Alice in this production of Elizabeth Swados' musical, which was adapted from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. Based on the acclaimed New York Shakespeare Festival production by Joseph Papp, Alice at the Palace follows Alice's surreal adventures with The Mad Hatter, The March Hare, The Queen of Hearts, and The Cheshire Cat, among many others.

Alice at the Palace

5.8 ⚠️ 1982

США, приключения

MaMa's Pushcart

Louise Diamond, Demetria Royals

Sam Shepard, Elizabeth Swados

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

MaMa's Pushcart

1988