PATRICK SWANSON
(Artistic Director)
Patrick Swanson began theater work in
London as an actor at the Arts Theatre in the West End. In 1969
he toured Europe with La MaMa Plexus and subsequently got his
world theater education from Ellen Stewart at La MaMa E.T.C.
His numerous directing projects have included opera, ensemble
and music theater, and he was a founding director of Circus
Flora.
Mr. Swanson taught acting and improvisation at the London Academy
of Dramatic Art (L.A.M.D.A.), the London Drama Centre, and New
York University. He served as artistic director of the Castle
Hill Festival at Castle Hill in Ipswich, Massachusetts, producing
opera and theater works including the premieres of Julie Taymor's
Liberty's Taken and Peter Sellar's Cosi fan Tutte. Directing
credits include: Tristan and Iseult with the Boston Camerata
at the Spoleto USA festival, Shirley Valentine at
Houston's Alley Theatre and Boston's Charles Playhouse, Happy
Days, The Caretaker, and two stage premieres at Gloucester
Stage Company, Talking Heads
by Alan Bennet and Fighting Over Beverly by Israel
Horowitz.
For Revels Mr.
Swanson has directed The Mysteries, a contemporary
version of medieval mystery plays, co-produced by Revels
and Shakespeare & Company, and Britten's opera Noye's Fludde. Mr. Swanson
writes and directs scripts, and with music director George Emlen,
serves as consultant to nine Revels cities around
the country. His recent production of King Lear with the Actor's
Shakespeare Project was nominated for three 2006 Elliot Norton
awards.
