Director’s Resume

DIRECTORS RESUME

LEWIS CAMPBELL is Artistic Director, Executive Director, and Stage Designer of 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 in various capacities including acting is detailed in the supplementary resume below.

Lewis Campbell
lewiscampbell
@sbcglobal.net

Height: 5′ 10″
Weight: 177 lbs
Hair: graying brown
Ages: 50-100 yrs.

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EDUCATION AND TRAINING

BA Theatre – 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 – 1952-1968

ACTING EXPERIENCE

(most recent first)

The Last Days of Judas IscariotJudge Little field and
Calaphas the Elder
Custom Made Theatre,
San Francisco
Night of the Iguana
(Tennessee Williams)
Nonno, the old poetBerkeley Ensemble Theater
Finding the Sun
(Edward Albee)
Old Man HendenCustom Made Theatre,
San Francisco
Mr. Shakespeare’s Magic MirrorEnsembleMulti Ethnic Theatre
San Francisco
Macbeth (Shakespeare)SeytonThe Julian Theatre
San Francisco
Hughie (Eugene O’Neil)Eire SmithNew Center Players
San Francisco
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
(Albee)
GeorgeMenlo Park Players Guild
The Bald Soprano (Ionesco)Mr. MartinCity Lights Theatre
San Francisco
The Lower Depth (Gorky)KostylyevPlayhouse Repertory
San Francisco
Enrico IV (Pirandello)EnricoPlayhouse Repertory
San Francisco
Brecht on Brecht
(Bertoit Brecht)
ActorPlayhouse Repertory
San Francisco
The Crucible (Arthur Miller)Judge DanforthSan Francisco State University
The White Devil (Webster)Cardinal MonticelsoSan Francisco State University
And People All Around
(George Sklar)
KKK Grand WizardSan Francisco State University
The Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare)TimeSan Francisco State University

DIRECTING AND TECHNICAL THEATRE EXPERIENCE

(most recent first)

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

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

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

(most recent first)

San Francisco Unified School District

Since retirement in 1993:  Day-to-Day Substitute as “Cowboy Luigi”, K-12 throughout the city. 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)