David Schweizer is well known to Los Angeles for his many notable productions including Lisa Loomer’s The Waiting Room and Kelly Stuart/Quincey Lon’s Demonology & The Joy of Going Somewhere Definite at the Mark Taper Forum; Tony Kushner’s The Illusion; Marlene Meyer’s Kingfish and The Geography of Luck; Thomas Babe’s Demon Wine and The Joni Mitchell Project at LATC. With his Modern Artists Company he has created multi-disciplinary theatre works such as Plato’s Symposium. His work with The Actor’s Gang includes Broadway; Oscar Wilde’s Salome, his own translation adaptation of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, and Charles Mee J’s Orestes. Los Angeles world premieres include John Steppling’s Sea of Cortez; Daniel Reitz’s Urban Folktales; and Michael Sargent’s Tarantula and Washington Confidential. His wide range of work includes the opera productions of Purcell’s Indian Queen with Guillerma Gomez-Pena at Long Beach Opera and Mozart’s Abduction From the Seraglio at Houston Grand Opera; experimental companies It’s a Man’s World with Mabou Mines, Foucault’s History of Sexuality with Theatre X; frequent regional theatre engagements include Yale Rep, Trinity Rep, Arena Stage, Williamstown; and new works in New York where he began his career as a Joseph Papp protégé (Public Theatre, Lincoln Center, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, New York Theatre Workshop, and others). International work includes residencies in Prague, Warsaw, London, Lisbon, Hamburg, Stockholm, and Japan. He has also directed the solo performances of Nora Dunn’s Small Prey; John Fleck’s Blessed Are All the Little Fishes, Bath Lapidus’ The First Lady; Chloe Webb’s True Lies; and Ann Magnuson’s You Could Be Home Now.