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MULTI ETHNIC THEATER

MET is a project of Theater Residencies, Incorporated (TRI ), a California non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation.

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DIRECTOR'S RESUME

LEWIS CAMPBELL

is Artistic Director, Executive Director, and Stage Designer

Multi Ethnic Theater. Over

the

past

twenty years he directed and designed twenty MET productions.

This entire web site

(browse the buttons

above)

serves

as a

detailed

resume of

those twenty years.

Before that he directed and designed over

one

hundred

productions as a high

school

theater teacher.

His

formal

education, his work as a teacher, and his work

with

MET and

other theater companies

various

capacities

including acting

detailed

the supplementary

resume below.

LEWIS CAMPBELL

171 Maynard Street
San Francisco, CA 94112
(415) 333-6389

lewiscampbell@sbcglobal.net

Height:     5 ft. 10 in.

Weight:    197 lbs

Hair:    graying brown

Ages:    50 - 100

ACTING EXPERIENCE
(most recent first)

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Stephen Adly Guirgis)	Judge Littlefield and Caiaphas the Elder	Custom Made Theatre, San Francisco
Night of the Iguana (Tennessee Williams)	Nonno, the old poet	Berkeley Ensemble Theatre
Finding the Sun (Edward Albee)	Old Man Henden	Custom Made Theatre, San Francisco
Mr. Shakespeare's Magic Mirror	Ensemble	Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
Macbeth (Shakespeare)	Seyton	The Julian Theater, San Francisco
Hughie (Eugene O’Neill)	Erie Smith	New Center Players, San Francisco
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Albee)	George	Menlo Park Players Guild
The Bald Soprano (Ionesco)	Mr. Martin	City Lights Theater, San Francisco
The Lower Depths (Gorky)	Kostylyev	Playhouse Repertory, San Francisco
Enrico IV (Pirandello)	Enrico	Playhouse Repertory, San Francisco
Brecht on Brecht (Bertolt Brecht)	Actor	Playhouse Repertory, San Francisco
The Crucible (Arthur Miller)	Judge Danforth	San Francisco State University
The White Devil (Webster)	Cardinal Monticelso	San Francisco State University
And People All Around (George Sklar)	KKK Grand Wizard	San Francisco State University
The Winter's Tale (Shakespeare)	Time	San Francisco State University

DIRECTING AND TECHNICAL THEATRE EXPERIENCE
(most recent first)

Two Trains Running (August Wilson)	Director/Designer	Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
Jitney (August Wilson)	Director/Designer	Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black (Lorraine Hansberry)	Director/Designer	Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
Gem of the Ocean (August Wilson)	Director/Designer	Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
The Exception and the Rule (Bertolt Brecht)	Director/Designer	Custom Made Theatre, San Francisco
When You Comin’ Back Red Ryder (Mark Medoff)	Director/Designer	Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
Sizwe Banzi is Dead & The Island (Athol Fugard)	Director/Designer	Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
The Time of Your Life (Willaim Saroyan)	Director/Designer	Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
Master Harold and the Boys (Athol Fugard)	Director/Designer	Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (August Wilson)	Director/Designer	Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
Twelve Angry Jurors (Reginald Rose)	Director/Designer	Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
Purlie Victorious! (Ossie Davis)	Director/Designer	Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
Mister Shakespeare’s Magic Mirror	Director/Designer	Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
He Who Gets Slapped (Leonid Andreyev)	Director/Designer	Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
Body Snatchers – The Musical (Bob Lesoine)	Director/Designer	Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
Scapino! (Moliere, adapted by Jim Dale))	Director/Designer	Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
The Lower Depths (Maxim Gorky)	Director/Designer	Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
Bleacher Bums (Joe Mantegna)	Director/Designer	Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
Golden Boy (Clifford Odets)	Director/Designer	Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
Fences (August Wilson)	Director/Designer	Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
The Mousetrap (Agatha Christie)	Director/Designer	Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare)	Assistant Director	Marin Shakespeare Festival
Summer Shakespeare Repertory	Makeup Designer	Marin Shakespeare Festival
Sarajevo Voices and Euripides' The Trojan Women	Director/Designer	Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
All My Sons (Arthur Miller)	Director/Designer	San Francisco State University
My Three Angels (Samuel and Bella Spewack)	Director/Designer	Seventh Army Repertory, Germany
Stalag 17 (Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski)	Director/Designer	Seventh Army Repertory, Germany

San Francisco Unified School District
At Mission High School established Multi Ethnic Theater. Later, with a California Arts Council grant, developed The Center for
Theater Training (CTT), a city-wide program for students from various high schools. The Center became the Actor Training
Program at School of the Arts (SOTA) when that alternative high school was formed. Taught full time in the Unified School District
until retirement in 1993 to form and become Artistic Director of Multi Ethnic Theater.

Santa Maria High School (Theater)

San Luis Obispo High School (English and Drama)

San Francisco State University (Graduate Assistant in Stage Makeup)

Petaluma High School (English and Drama)

Directed, designed and built over one-hundred productions during a 35 year teaching career.
Designed and installed over 15 working theaters in various found spaces.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
(most recent first)

EDUCATION AND TRAINING
BA Theater - San Jose State University 1955
General Secondary Credential (English, Speech, and Drama) - San Jose State 1959
Special Credential in Speech Therapy and Rehabilitation of the Hard of Hearing - 1959
Post-Graduate Courses Leading to an MA in Theater - San Francisco State - 1962-1968

AVAILABLE FOR PRIVATE COACHING
Reasonable Rates

Audition preparation and repertoire building.

Voice and Speech Improvement

Script Analysis and Interpretation

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