Elizabeth Swados

Writing

Born: 1951-02-05

Died: 2016-01-05

From: Buffalo, NY

Gender: Female

Popularity: 0.2

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.

Awards & Nominations4 won · 2 nominated

Nominated

Tony Award for Best Original Score

Runaways

1978

Nominated

Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical

1978

🏆 Won

Ad honorem

🏆 Won

Drama Desk Awards

🏆 Won

Outer Critics Circle Award

🏆 Won

Guggenheim Fellowship

Elizabeth Swados

Biography

Awards & Nominations4 won · 2 nominated

Acting2 titles

The Girl with the Incredible Feeling

MaMa's Pushcart

Directing1 title

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

Writing3 titles

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

Alice at the Palace

The Girl with the Incredible Feeling

Sound15 titles

King of America

Guests of the Nation

The Killing Floor

OHMS

Rappaccini's Daughter

Four Friends

Alice at the Palace

The Cosmic Eye

Family Sins

Barn Burning

The Adventures of Sebastian Cole

Seize the Day

Too Far to Go

The Girl with the Incredible Feeling

The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories