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Guest Artist Detail
Richard Sewell
Director,
Playwright,
Actor
An accomplished Playwright, Director and Actor, Colby
legend Richard Sewell
is a member of Actors' Equity, the union of professional actors. He
retired in 2002 after teaching and directing here at Colby College since
1974. He founded Camden Shakespeare Theater in 1960 and later co-founded The
Theater at Monmouth (1970), a proffessional classical repertory company
still in operation. He has directed or produced twenty-one plays from
the Shakespearean cannon (some several times) and other plays from Aeschylus
to Pinter, Ionesco and Tennessee Williams in both professional and academic
theater. His own plays have been produced in union theaters in New York
City, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, the North Carolina
Spoleto Festival, and in academic theater (including Colby
College from which he holds an honorary degree), and are published by the Quarterly Review
of Literature and by Baker's Plays. During his over twenty
years on Colby's faculty he directed plays and musicals by Sondheim, Brecht
and others. He has also penned a book on modern war and Greek tragedy, In the Theater
of Dionysos and
his adaptation of The Phantom Lady by Calderón de la Barca
had a public reading at The Shakespeare Theater in Washington D.C.
in October 2007. In the spring of 2003, his drama
The Maroni Notebook (which premiered at Colby) was the Maine state
winner of the Clauder prize.
- JanPlan 2009
- Directed Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
- JanPlan 2008
- Acted in The One That Gets Slapped by Leonid Andreyev
- Fall
2007
- Acted in Life Is a Dream by Calderón de la Barca
- Fall 2005
- Directed
Guerrero by Alan Clark
- JanPlan
2005
- Irving D. Suss Guest Artist (Fall '04 & JanPlan)
- Wrote & Directed
In Divisiblunder
- Fall
2004
- Taught
Taking Shakespeare's Word For It
- Taught
Play Writing
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