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Brian Swibel
A proud Chicagoan born and bred, B. Swibel works as a producer, director, writer and actor. He is the founder of b. swibel presents, an entertainment company (affiliated with Playing Pretend Productions) based in NY and LA that develops and produces diverse forms of media and arts education programming. Most recently, Mr. Swibel, along with his partner Tara Smith, became the youngest lead producer on Broadway with the hit original musical satire by Douglas Carter Beane, Xanadu. Xanadu earned the 2008 NY Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, the 2008 Drama Desk Award for Best Book and 4 2008 Tony nominations, including Best Musical.

Upon founding his first theatre company in Chicago in 1999, Mr. Swibel began by taking short sub-leases on his friends’ Bucktown apartments and converting them into black box theaters. In a three year period, Swibel produced and directed acclaimed, innovative productions of such works as Cowboy Mouth, Daniel MacIvor’s House, Orpheus Descending, Uncle Vanya, The Entertainer, Temporary Help, Falconer, and Base (Saratoga Int’l Theater Institute play festival) an original short play conceived under the tutelage of internationally acclaimed Director Anne Bogart.

Other work in the theater includes: Off Broadway: Family Secrets Directed by Bob Balaban.. Los Angeles: Harold Becker’s Production of Athol Fugard’s Blood Knot, Romeo and Juliet, Peter Pan, Curse of the Starving Class, Hamlet (Camelot Group). Connecticut: To Die For (Featured in Hartford Stage’s BRAND:New Play Festival.)

He is also the creator of The Zia Pueblo Theater Project, a childrens’ performance arts program based in New Mexico that brings together Native American students and theater conservatory graduates to create cross-cultural, home-grown “theater that heals”.

Mr. Swibel wrote and produced a critically acclaimed, award-winning short-film series Suburban Malady. Sunset Town, the first film in the series, won multiple nat’l awards and then led to creating Fault, which garnered the Kodak Emerging Filmmaker Award at the Cannes Film Festival and international distribution.

Most recently he Directed Good Thing in LA (Hudson Guild) and produced the record-breaking hit web series [Cubby Bernstein] starring Cynthia Nixon, Nathan Lane and Patti Lupone.

Upcoming: Xanadu US National Tour begins in San Diego, November of 2008.

Bswibelpresents (talk) 21:17, 4 December 2008 (UTC)B. Swibel Presents

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