Elizabeth Swados has composed, written, and directed over 30 theater pieces including The Trilogy, Nightclub Cantata, Runaways, Alice in Concert, Doonesbury, Rap Master Ronnie, The Haggadah, Jonah, Job, Esther, Jerusalem with Yehudah Amichai, The 49 Years, and Missionaries. She has performed at LaMaMa, The Public Theater, The Manhattan Theatre Club, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Carnegie Hall, on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and all over the world.

Ms. Swados has composed music for film and television as well as a song cycle, Bible Women, which has toured the United States. She has published novels, non-fiction books, and children's books and has written a memoir/textbook for Faber and Faber on how to make theater with adolescents, as well as My Depression: A Picture Book, which will soon be created and produced as an animated film. New works include the musical theater pieces Jabu and Kasper Hauser for the Flea Theater and on October 11, 14, and 27 her new oratorio, Atonement, will be performed at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, St. Marks on the Bowery, and the JCC of Manhattan.

She has been commissioned to write a full musical for a train which will travel from Brattelboro, Vermont to Bellows Falls, involving the train as well as the communities. A documentary will be made about the project. She currently directs Political Subversities, a political, satirical company which will perform its show all year long at selected times at Joe's Pub, culminating in the 2008 presidential election. She is also adapting the poetry of Roald Dahl for a family extravaganza.

She is a faculty member at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Ms. Swados is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Ford Fellowship, a Covenant Foundation Grant, 3 Obies, 5 Tony nominations, a Special Pen Citation, a Cine Award, and a Mira Award, among others.