Director
Theatre and Film Director
Associate Member
Stage Directors and Choreographers Society
Perry T. Schwartz has directed professionally in Washington, DC and New York City. Notably, he directed the late Oscar nominee, Adolph Caesar, in a national touring production of The Square Root of Soul.
A complete list of Mr. Schwartz’s theatrical productions can be examined in his resume below, along with the narrative and documentary short films he produced and directed for his company, Ol’ Black Bear Productions, established since 1985.
Review Quotes
Endgame: “A rich bombast of Beckett...Director Perry T. Schwartz has chosen to fill the space...something akin to a Shakespearean tragedy, played in a garbage heap...the production achieves the haunting poetic texture of junk sculpture.”
– David Richards, The Washington Post
Macbett: “Theatre Wing soars with Macbett. Imagine Shakepeare’s Macbeth as a fairy tale produced by Monty Python and you have a rough approximation of Ionesco's Macbett directed with a sure hand by Perry T. Schwartz.”
–Bob Mondello, The Washington City Paper
Perry T. Schwartz
Professional Membership
Stage Directors and Choreographers Society — Associate Member
Theatre Production
Professional Equity
1976-77 Negro Ensemble/Theatre De Lys -- THE SQUARE ROOT OF SOUL Original Production -- Staging and Production Management -- New York City, Washington D. C. and National Tour
1980 Jewish Community Center, Rockville, MD -- THE BAR MITZVAH OF HARRY LONDON starring Ron Canada --Director
Professional Non-Equity
2014 Arts Alive -- Black Box Theatre — Producer/Director/Designer -- ENDGAME by Samuel Beckett
2012 Arts Alive -- Black Box Theatre -- Producer/Director/Designer -- ALL THIS INTIMACY by Rajiv Joseph
2011 Doorway Arts Ensemble -- Director -- SEX AND EDUCATION by Lissa Levin
2010 Spooky Action Theatre -- Director -- THE MARRIAGE OF BETTE AND BOO by Christopher Durang
1984-86 Washington Theatre Wing -- Producer/Director -- MACBETT, FANTASTICKS, COMING ATTRACTIONS, THE EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS
1980 Playwrights’ Co-Op -- Producer/Director/Designer -- TO SEE WHAT HE COULD SEE-- Original Production Washington, D. C. and New York City (Perry Street Theatre).
1978 Playwrights’ Co-Op -- Washington Project for the Arts -- Producer/Director/Designer -- ENDGAME by Samuel Beckett
1972-77 Playwrights’ Co-Op -- Producer/Director/Designer -- THE ABC’S by Beth Linnerson -- Touring Children' Theatre
Recent College Theatre Productions—Producer/Director
2016 THE FIREBUGS by Max Frisch
2015 Readers’ Theatre Adaptation of Short Stories
NOTES ON THE COLD WAR IN KANSAS by Robert Day
2005 FISHING by Robert Day
2004 EARLY SHORT PLAYS by Israel Horovitz
2002 Readers’ Theatre Adaptation of Short Stories
GO THE DISTANCE by W. P. Kinsella
2001 Readers’ Theatre Adaptation of Short Stories
SMOKE AND MIRRORS by Neil Gaiman
Community and College Theatre Produced and Directed over 100 productions from 1963 to the present.
Video Production for Ol’ Black Bear Productions
In Progress
2020 BLUEGRASS COURT JESTER: RON THOMASON
Documentary Concert Video — (in Post) -- Produced and Directed
2020 SNAKE -- Short Film -- (in Post) -- Produced, Written, and Directed
Completed
2018 THE LANGUAGE OF FILM (educational video) -- Produced, Co-Written and Directed
2016 CHASING THE GHOST (music documentary) -- Produced and Directed
2012 WATERMARK (artist documentary) -- Produced and Directed
2011 KANSAS PEACHES (short narrative film) -- Produced, Written and Directed
2008 THEATRE ARTS: THE BASICS (educational video) -- Produced, Writen and Directed
2005 RATS (short play adapted for video) -- Produced and Directed
1994 CALL KRYSTAL (short narrative film) -- Produced, Written and Directed
1992 LEO AND MARS (short narrative film) -- Produced, Written and Directed
Completion Grant -- Association of Maryland Area Media Artists
1991 SOAP OPERA (play adapted for video) -- Produced and Directed
Rosebud Award Washington, D.C. Best Narrative Feature
Work Experience
1988 -- Present -- Ol' Black Bear Productions -- Producing Director, Video Production
1975 -- Present — Metro D.C. and New York City -- Freelance Theatre Director
1978-2017 -- Montgomery College -- Communication and Performing Arts — Chairman
1997-2007 -- Montgomery College -- American Film Institute Workshops at Montgomery College — Coordinator
1995-2012 -- Montgomery College -- Cultural Arts Center — Artistic Director Lead Academic for planning and coordination with architects and builders
1997-2007 -- AFI Movie Production Workshop — Executive Director and Lead Instructor
1984-86 -- Washington Theatre Wing — Producing Director
1972-80 -- Playwrights' Coop — Executive Director
1965--2017 (retired 2017) -- Professor College Theatre/Film