ELIZABETH SWADOS
Elizabeth Swados, who composed the music for The
Merchant of Venice previously composed music at the A.R.T. for Andrei
Serban's production of The Good Woman of Setzuan and for
Susan Sontag's Jacques and His Master.
Her Broadway credits include The Cherry Orchard, Agamemnon,
Doonesbury, and Runaways. Recent work includes
her collaboration with Andrei Serban on Cymbeline
for the New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park, and previously
she composed for the Public
Theater's productions of Dispatches, Alice in Concert,
Haggadah, Lullabye and Goodnight, Jerusalem,
and Jonah. Her off-Broadway credits include Groundhog,
The Prince and the Pauper, The Trilogy, The
Good Woman of Setzuan, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and
Rapmaster Ronnie, among many others. She has received five Tony
award nominations, three Obie awards, and an Outer Critics Circle Award, as well
as Guggenheim, Ford, and Covenant Fellowships and a Stephen Spielberg Righteous
Person Grant. She is the author of six children's books, three novels, and two
nonfiction books. Her most recent novel, Flamboyant, is in stores now.
Artists Offstage
American Repertory Theatre
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