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Elizabeth Swados was born on 5 February, 1951 in Buffalo, New York, United States. Discover Elizabeth Swados's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 65 years old?

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Occupation Writer, composer, musician, theatre director
Age 65 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 5 February 1951
Birthday 5 February
Birthplace Buffalo, New York, U.S.
Date of death January 5, 2016,
Died Place Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Nationality United States

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2016

Swados died from complications following surgery for esophageal cancer on January 5, 2016. She was 64.

Shortly after Swados' death in 2016, the actress Diane Lane honored her by establishing a grant for arts educators. The two had a personal connection that dated back to the 1970s. Swados provided the music for Lane's acting debut in Andrei Serban’s 1972 production of Medea, and collaborated with the actress again on Runaways.

Runaways was revived in July 2016, after Swados' death, by the New York City Center as a part of its Encores! Off-Center season, a series that explores rarely-revived Off Broadway shows.

2005

Her father, Robert O. Swados, was a successful attorney who helped Seymour H. Knox III convert the local Buffalo Sabres hockey club into a full National Hockey League team. His autobiography, Counsel in the Crease: A Big League Player in the Hockey Wars, was published by Prometheus Books in 2005. Her mother, an actress and poet, struggled with depression. Her older brother and only sibling, Lincoln, had schizophrenia. Swados' mother committed suicide in 1974 and Lincoln died in 1989. Swados also suffered from depression, which she discussed in her book, My Depression: A Picture Book, which was published by Seven Stories Press in 2014.

She published three novels, three non-fiction books, and nine children's books. Her later books included My Depression: A Picture Book, Sidney's Animal Rescue, and At Play: Teaching Teenagers Theater. My Depression: A Picture Book (2005), was made into an animated short film that was an official selection of the Tribeca Film Festival in 2014. The film includes voices by Sigourney Weaver and Steve Buscemi. In June 2016, Swados' final novel, Walking The Dog, was posthumously published by The Feminist Press. The narrative follows a former child prodigy painter and rich-girl kleptomaniac as she struggles to reintegrate into society following a botched heist which left her incarcerated for two decades.

1978

Her first Broadway success, Runaways, was intended to be a community service piece with a short run. However, after appearing at The Public Theater, the show transferred to Broadway in May 1978. Swados' first musical with Garry Trudeau, Doonesbury, opened on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre in November 1983. In 1984, Swados composed the music for Garry Trudeau's satirical musical Rap Master Ronnie. In 1985, Swados' musical The Beautiful Lady, concerning the life and works of six Russian poets who lived, composed and performed in St. Petersburg at the time of the Revolution, won the first Helen Hayes "Best New Play" award. Swados also composed music for film (Four Friends, 1981) and television (Seize the Day, 1987), and performed live at Carnegie Hall.

1977

She was profiled by filmmaker Linda Feferman in the 1977 short documentary The Girl with the Incredible Feeling, a title drawn from a 1975 children's book which she wrote and illustrated. The documentary blends performance footage, home movies, testimonial, and an animated dramatization of the title book, narrated by actor Kenneth McMillan, with her illustrations animated by Carol Ehrlich.

1973

Swados studied music and creative writing at Bennington College in Vermont, receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973. While at Bennington, she was introduced by professor Franz Marijnen to Ellen Stewart and became involved with Stewart's La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York City.

1970

Working with Ellen Stewart and Andrei Serban, and with Peter Brook, Swados worked to develop a new sensory language of sound, rhythm, and movement that transcended traditional verbal speech. Swados' musical compositions for Fragments of a Greek Trilogy (Medea, Electra, and Trojan Women) during the early 1970s at La MaMa and for Peter Brook's Conference of the Birds in the later 1970s laid the groundwork for musical innovation in both American and international theatre.

1951

Elizabeth Swados (February 5, 1951 – January 5, 2016) 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.

Swados was born February 5, 1951 in Buffalo, New York. Swados' autobiography, The Four of Us, A Family Memoir, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1991.