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BRIAN SWASEY

NEW YORK EXPERIENCE The Secret Garden Director/Choreographer White Plains PAC City of Angels Choreographer Gallery Players Die Mommie Die Assistant Director New World Stages Bernstein’s Peter Pan Director Leonard Bernstein Office A New Brain Director/Choreographer Astoria Performing Arts Center Forever Plaid -NYIT Award Nominee Director/Choreographer APAC A New Generation of Song Director 2007 NY Musical Theatre Festival Rapunzel Assistant Dir./Choreographer NY Fringe Festival The Man in the Iron Mask -with Marla Schaffel Director The Lambs Theatre Rapunzel -with D’Jamin Bartlett Choreographer 2006 NYC Fringe Festival Seussical Director/Choreographer St. John’s University Lucky Stiff Director/Choreographer Astoria Performing Arts Center Man Wanted Director/Choreographer Center Stage Theatre, NYC Is There Life After High School? -OOBR Award Winner

Director/Choreographer Astoria Performing Arts Center

Triumph of Love -NYIT Award Nominee Director/Choreographer Astoria Performing Arts Center Once Upon A Mattress Director/Choreographer Helen Hayes PAC Nunsense Director/Choreographer Astoria Performing Arts Center The Wild Party Choreographer The Gallery Players Anything Goes Director/Choreographer Fordham University

REGIONAL EXPERIENCE Chicago Director/Choreographer Seacoast Repertory Theatre Ain’t Misbehavin’ Director/Choreographer Seacoast Repertory Theatre The Berenstain Bears Director/Choreographer Ogunquit Playhouse The Marvelous Wonderettes Director/Choreographer Bristol Valley Theatre Grease Director/Choreographer Maui Onstage Hairspray Director/Choreographer Seacoast Repertory Theatre Fiddler on the Roof (Robbins Choreography) Choreographer New London Barn Playhouse A Taffeta Wedding Director/Choreographer Arundel Barn Playhouse Rent –Best Musical, NH Spotlight Award Director/Choreographer Seacoast Repertory Theatre Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Director/Choreographer Bristol Valley Theatre Altar Boyz (Gatelli Choreography) Director/Choreographer Seacoast Repertory Theatre Sweeney Todd Director/Choreographer Portland Players Once on the Island Director/Choreographer Maui Onstage West Side Story (Robbins Choreography) Director/Choreographer Seacoast Repertory Theatre Musical of Musicals, The Musical Director/Choreographer Bristol Valley Theatre Miracle on 34th Street Director Seacoast Repertory Theatre Peter Pan Director/Choreographer Seacoast Repertory Theatre The Rocky Horror Show Director/Choreographer Arundel Barn Playhouse The News in Review Assistant Director Coconut Grove Playhouse Kiss Me Kate -NH Theater Award Nominee Director/Choreographer Lakes Region Summer Theatre She Loves Me Choreographer New London Barn Playhouse A Christmas Carol Director/Choreographer Jenny Wiley Theatre Godspell Choreographer Walnut Hill Arts Annie Director/Choreographer Maui Onstage

Education

BA in Musical Theatre from the University of Hampshire, 1995 Artistic Director, Astoria Performing Arts Center (2001-2008) Associate Producer, Queens Theatre in the Park (Spring 2008-June 2011)

Paul Brewster Education Director Ogunquit Playhouse 603-493-5818

Carol Lucha-Burns Professor University of New Hampshire 603-494-7620

Jon Kimbell Director Kimbje43@gmail.com

Carol Dunne Artistic Director New London Barn Playhouse 603-526-4631

Alexis Dascoulias Artistic Director Maui Onstage 808-244-8680

Craig Faulkner Artistic Director Seacoast Repertory Company 603-433-4793

Karin Bowerstock Artistic Director Bristol Valley Theater 585-374-9032

Director Brian Swasey works wonders, taking fresh perspectives on a myriad of songs and maintaining a tricky balance between razzmatazz and cabaret-like intimacy. -John Kenrick, Musicals101.com

I feel like I got a directors workshop for free. Your stage direction and choreography was simple but extremely effective. -George Wood Jr., President, Theatre Sarnia, Ontario Canada

His artistic and personal integrity are extremely high, creating an atmosphere where his cast and crew trust him totally. -Susan Scannell, Executive Producer Astoria Performing Arts Center

Watch for this man's name in years to come. -John Kenrick, Musicals101.com

His sense of period style and musical theatre history was clearly demonstrated in his exciting choreography. -Carol Lucha-Burns, Director of Musical Theatre, University of New Hampshire

The girls sound and look great. Productions like these are a pleasure for me to see -Dan Goggin, Writer of Nunsense

Director/Choreographer, Brian Swasey, filled the entire theatre with action, taking the fun into the audience. -Charles Battersby, OOBR online

Director and choreographer, Brian Swasey, has superbly taken this tail of New Jersey Nuns across two rivers to Queens. -The Queens Scene

What impressed me was his ability to teach beyond the choreography-each student had a complete understanding of their character. - Justin Ball, Scarsdale Summer Music Theatre Artistic Director

It's a zany cross of fluff and mayhem, brought to life with zest and high spirits by director Brian Swasey. -Martin Denton, NY Theatre.com

This kind of zany material can fizzle in the wrong hands, but director Brian Swasey keeps his cast tuned to exactly the right comic pitch, winning every laugh. - John Kenrick, Musicals101.com

Brian Swasey is a graduate of The University of New Hampshire with a degree in Musical Theatre and Dance. Directing and Choreography credits include Forever Plaid, Beauty and the Beast, Altar Boyz, Sweeney Todd, Lucky Stiff, Footloose, A Christmas Carol, The Wild Party, The Man in The Iron Mask, Godspell, Seussical, Starmites, Nunsense, Hairspray, A Taffeta Wedding, Is There Life After High School?, How to Succeed..., Fiddler on the Roof, Once on this Island, A New Brain, Miracle on 34th Street, Musical of Musicals, The Musical, A Chorus Line, Once Upon a Mattress, West Side Story,Kiss Me, Kate and Peter Pan. Assistant Directed Die, Mommie, Die starring Charles Busch. Theatrical Performing credits include George in The Drowsy Chaperone, Harry Houdini in Ragtime at Maine State Music Theatre, the Off-Broadway production of Naked Boys Singing, Into the Woods, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Crazy for You, Peter Pan with Cathy Rigby, Fiddler on the Roof, A Chorus Line, She Loves Me, 42nd Street, Tommy, The Wizard of Oz, and an international and US tour of West Side Story. Artistic Director of the Astoria Performing Arts Center (2001-2008). For more information visit www.brianswasey.com.