Michael Schwartz Directing Resume
Michael Schwartz Directing Resume
Michael Schwartz Directing Resume
Director
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THEATRE DIRECTING
BROADWAY Sunday In The Park With George OFF BROADWAY Dani Girl The 2nd Annual Tommy Awards The 1st Annual Tommy Awards Punk, A New Musical NEW YORK Company Tales of a Misfit Honk! Mind Control Lying Naked (2 PCTF Awards**) Dantons Death Claw Of The Schwa (2 MITF Awards***) Natural Survivors (Reading) Please Dont Feed The Children Lori At A Fetish Party (Workshop) REGIONAL The Drowsy Chaperone (New Haven, CT) Lost Cause (London, England) Restoring Love (Dallas, TX) The Homecoming (San Francisco, CA) Basement Pinter (San Francisco, CA) More Than Abel (San Francisco, CA) Gilgamesh (Los Angeles, CA) The Shape of Things (Los Angeles, CA) Fat Men In Skirts (Larkspur, CA) Asst. Musical Stager/SDC Observer to Chris Gattelli Roundabout Theatre Company, Studio 54
Associate Director NAMT/New World Stages (Dir. Scott Schwartz) Director/Co-Creator/Creative Producer/Choreographer Skirball Center Director/Co-Creator/Creative Producer/Choreographer New World Stages Director/Co-Producer NYTB/The Players Theatre (Writs. Fox/Gellersted/Brumley)
Asst. Director Director/Co-Writer Director Director Director Asst. Director/Staging Director Director Director Director
NY Philharmonic (Dir. Lonny Price) Laurie Beechman Theatre (Writs. Ravi Roth & Michael Schwartz) Stagecoach Theatre Arts School Sam French OOB Festival/Lion Theatre (Writ. Debbie Lamedman) Planet Connections/Gene Frankel Theatre (Writ. Alex Goldberg) Michael Chekhov Theatre Co. (Dir. Katrin Hilbe) Midtown Intl Theatre Festival/Small Pond Ent. (Writ. Zach Udko) NYU Festival of New Works (Writ. David Smithyman) American Place Theatre/Small Pond Ent. (Writ. Michelle Fadem) Shetler Studios/Small Pond Ent. (Writs. Tartaglia/Weinstein)
Director/Choreographer Yale University Theatre/Yale University Dramatic Association Director Old Vic Theatre/TS Eliot Exchange (AD. Kevin Spacey, Writ. Josh Conkel) Asst. Director Dallas Cowboys Stadium (+ Live Broadcast), Mercury One Asst. Director American Conservatory Theatre (Dir. Carey Perloff, Artistic Director) Co Director/Co Producer American Conservatory Theatre Director/Writer/Actor/Sound Designer The Magic Theatre Asst. Director Theatre @ Boston Court (Dir. Jessica Kubzansky) Director/Producer Massman Theatre, Boat Ashore Productions Director/Set & Sound Designer Ensemble ProductIon Co.
FILM DIRECTING
Drifting Elegant The Birthday Program Ascent, Friend (And Others) Assistant to Director Director/DP/Editor/Actor Director/DP/Editor South Bay Films (Dir. Amy Glazer, Writ. Stephen Belber) Full Table Marketing BoatAshore Films
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BA in Theatre, Minor in Cinema/Television (Jack Rowe, John Blankenchip, Mark Rucker, Lora Zane, Kelly Ward, Stephanie Shroyer, Joe Hacker, Marilyn McIntyre) BRITISH AMERICAN DRAMA ACADEMY Conservatory Program in London, England (Mark Wing-Davey, Sheila Allen, Ian Wooldridge, Jackie Matthews, Jessica Higgs, Mick Barnfather, Mike Loades, Nick Hutchison) CALIFORNIA STATE SUMMER SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS California Arts Scholar, Presented by Governor Gray Davis Graduated May 2006
OTHER RECOGNITION
*Member of SDC, Lincoln Center Theatres Directors Lab, Old Vic New Voices, Labyrinth Theatre Companys Master Class/Ensemble Workshop **Best Short Play, Best Actress PCTF Awards 2010, ***Best Short Play, Best Actor MITF Awards 2008 Nancy Kehr Reed Memorial Award, USC, 2005 (Awarded bi-annually to an outstanding independent director/producer)