Elizabeth Swanson is a Chicago-based theater director with a passion for musicals and new plays.

Recent credits include Head Over Heels (Kokandy Productions, Chicago), I Know My Own Heart (Pride Films & Plays, Chicago), Harvey (Three Brothers Theater, Waukegan), Where All the White Sneakers At? (Second City, Chicago), Lungs (Granary Theatre, Cork, Ireland), and Electra (The Lir, Dublin, Ireland). Assistant directing credits include Fun Home (Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago), Love’s Labor’s Lost (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), and Vardo for the Dublin Theatre Festival (Anu Productions). Elizabeth has directed workshops and readings with About Face Theater, BoHo Theatre, Underscore Theatre, The New Colony, American Theater Company, and Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, among others. Elizabeth holds an MFA in theatre directing from the Lir National Academy of Dramatic Arts at Trinity College, Dublin.