I’m a theater director based in Chicago. My focuses are musicals and chamber plays.
Elizabeth Swanson is a Chicago-based theater director. Recent credits include: Head Over Heels (Kokandy Productions), I Know My Own Heart (Pride Films & Plays), Harvey (Three Brothers Theater), Where All the White Sneakers At? (Second City), and Lungs (Granary Theatre, Cork, Ireland). Assistant directing credits include: Fun Home (Victory Gardens Theater, dir. Gary Griffin), Love’s Labor’s Lost (Chicago Shakespeare Theater, dir. Marti Maraden), and Vardo for the Dublin Theatre Festival (Anu Productions, dir. Louise Lowe).
Elizabeth has also directed for Stage 773’s Artists Lab as well as festivals, workshops, and readings with About Face Theater, Piven Theatre Workshop, Chicago Dramatists, Chicago Theater Marathon, The New Colony, and Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts. Elizabeth holds an MFA in theatre directing from the Lir National Academy of Dramatic Arts at Trinity College, Dublin.
Current Projects
HILDEGARD LIVE is now available on Bandcamp!
Recent Work
HILDEGARD: AN UNFINISHED REVOLUTION
Written by Reddyk & Krupp
Live Album Recording at Sleeping Village, December 2019
Residency at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, September 2019
Concert Reading at Prop Thtr, July 2019
THE BONE HARP: WINTER WORKSHOP
Book and Lyrics by Laura Stratford, Music and Additional Lyrics by Heidi Joosten
Workshop Performances January 20-24
Underscore Theatre Company
HEAD OVER HEELS
Written by Jeff Whitty and James Magruder
Kokandy Productions, July 1 – September 8, 2019
I KNOW MY OWN HEART
Written by Emma Donoghue
Pride Films & Plays, January 10 – February 10, 2019
Education
The Lir National Academy of Dramatic Arts at Trinity College, Dublin
M.F.A. in Theatre Directing
Princeton University
B.A. in History with a Certificate in Theatre