Elizabeth Swados

Elizabeth Swados

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.

  • Title: Elizabeth Swados
  • Popularity: 1.572
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1951-02-05
  • Place of Birth: Buffalo, NY
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Elizabeth Swados Movies

  • 1977
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    The Girl with the Incredible Feeling

    The Girl with the Incredible Feeling

    1 1977 HD

    A profile of composer, performer, and author Elizabeth Swados, inter-cutting scenes of the artist at work and in travel with personal reflections and...

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  • 1988
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    MaMa's Pushcart

    MaMa's Pushcart

    1 1988 HD

    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,...

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  • 1987
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    Family Sins

    Family Sins

    3.5 1987 HD

    Gordon has a loving wife and two sons, Bryan and Keith, but he favors his spoiled younger son Keith over Bryan, who is defiant and not good at...

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  • 1998
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    The Adventures of Sebastian Cole

    The Adventures of Sebastian Cole

    5.4 1998 HD

    Hank marries the divorced Joan, who's the mother of teens Sebastian and Jessica. After living with his new family for years, Hank announces that he's...

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  • 1982
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    King of America

    King of America

    1 1982 HD

    Hot-tempered Greek immigrant Andreas arrives in America in 1915. He finds work on a railroad, but soon gives his corrupt foreman Mekakis a savage...

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  • 1980
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    Barn Burning

    Barn Burning

    6 1980 HD

    Ab Snopes (Tommy Lee Jones) is a Southern tenant farmer whose unrelenting and violent nature proves to be his undoing in William Faulkner's Barn...

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  • 1980
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    Rappaccini's Daughter

    Rappaccini's Daughter

    6 1980 HD

    Set in 18th Century Italy, RAPPACCINI'S DAUGHTER is the tale of a young scholar named Giovanni (Kristoffer Tabori) who falls in love with a...

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  • 1982
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    Alice at the Palace

    Alice at the Palace

    5.5 1982 HD

    Meryl Streep stars as Alice in this production of Elizabeth Swados' musical, which was adapted from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the...

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  • 1982
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    Alice at the Palace

    Alice at the Palace

    5.5 1982 HD

    Meryl Streep stars as Alice in this production of Elizabeth Swados' musical, which was adapted from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the...

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  • 1982
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    Alice at the Palace

    Alice at the Palace

    5.5 1982 HD

    Meryl Streep stars as Alice in this production of Elizabeth Swados' musical, which was adapted from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the...

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  • 1981
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    Guests of the Nation

    Guests of the Nation

    1 1981 HD

    This drama tells the story of Irish insurgents and the captured British soldiers whom they are assigned to guard. While confined to a remote...

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  • 2014
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    My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It)

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

    7.4 2014 HD

    Based on Elizabeth Swados’ picture book of the same name, this animated short film charts one woman's struggle with depression.

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  • 1977
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    The Girl with the Incredible Feeling

    The Girl with the Incredible Feeling

    1 1977 HD

    A profile of composer, performer, and author Elizabeth Swados, inter-cutting scenes of the artist at work and in travel with personal reflections and...

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  • 1977
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    The Girl with the Incredible Feeling

    The Girl with the Incredible Feeling

    1 1977 HD

    A profile of composer, performer, and author Elizabeth Swados, inter-cutting scenes of the artist at work and in travel with personal reflections and...

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  • 1980
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    OHMS

    OHMS

    5 1980 HD

    A conservative, Midwestern farmer rallies his neighbors against a power company planning to erect huge towers across their land, and a political...

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  • 1979
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    Too Far to Go

    Too Far to Go

    1 1979 HD

    Love and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into the fabric so many have come to know as marriage. For...

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  • 2014
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    My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It)

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

    7.4 2014 HD

    Based on Elizabeth Swados’ picture book of the same name, this animated short film charts one woman's struggle with depression.

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  • 2014
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    My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It)

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

    7.4 2014 HD

    Based on Elizabeth Swados’ picture book of the same name, this animated short film charts one woman's struggle with depression.

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  • 2014
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    My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It)

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

    7.4 2014 HD

    Based on Elizabeth Swados’ picture book of the same name, this animated short film charts one woman's struggle with depression.

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  • 1986
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    The Cosmic Eye

    The Cosmic Eye

    6.2 1986 HD

    Earth is visited by a race of aliens, who issue an ultimatum: either peace or complete destruction.

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  • 1986
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    Seize the Day

    Seize the Day

    4.979 1986 HD

    Tommy Wilhelm (Robin Williams) is a salesman. An honest, hard-working guy who has lost his job, his girlfriend, and left part of his sanity behind as...

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  • 1981
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    Four Friends

    Four Friends

    6.855 1981 HD

    A young immigrant comes to America in the 60s and is caught up in the counterculture movement which tests his bonds of friendship and love.

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  • 1984
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    The Killing Floor

    The Killing Floor

    8 1984 HD

    During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the...

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