Elizabeth Swados
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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.
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American Playhouse
1982 · TV
Four Friends
1981 · Movie
Alice at the Palace
1982 · Movie
My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It)
2014 · Movie
The Adventures of Sebastian Cole
1998 · Movie
The Killing Floor
1984 · Movie
Seize the Day
1986 · Movie
OHMS
1980 · Movie
Too Far to Go
1979 · Movie
Family Sins
1987 · Movie
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories
1981 · Movie
King of America
1982 · Movie