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
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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 Iscariot | Judge Little field and Calaphas the Elder | Custom Made Theatre, San Francisco |
| Night of the Iguana (Tennessee Williams) | Nonno, the old poet | Berkeley Ensemble Theater |
| Finding the Sun (Edward Albee) | Old Man Henden | Custom Made Theatre, San Francisco |
| Mr. Shakespeare’s Magic Mirror | Ensemble | Multi Ethnic Theatre San Francisco |
| Macbeth (Shakespeare) | Seyton | The Julian Theatre San Francisco |
| Hughie (Eugene O’Neil) | Eire 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 Theatre San Francisco |
| The Lower Depth (Gorky) | Kostylyev | Playhouse Repertory San Francisco |
| Enrico IV (Pirandello) | Enrico | Playhouse Repertory San Francisco |
| Brecht on Brecht (Bertoit 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 Theatre San Francisco |
| Jitney (August Wilson) | Director/Designer | Multi Ethnic Theatre San Francisco |
| To Be Young, Gifted and Black (Lorraine Hansberry) | Director/Designer | Multi Ethnic Theatre San Francisco |
| Gem of the Ocean (August Wilson) | Director/Designer | Multi Ethnic Theatre 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 Theatre San Francisco |
| Sizwe Banzi is Dead & The Island (Athol Fugard) | Director/Designer | Multi Ethnic Theatre San Francisco |
| The Time of Your Life (William Saroyan) | Director/Designer | Multi Ethnic Theatre San Francisco |
| Master Harold and the Boys (Athol Fugard) | Director/Designer | Multi Ethnic Theatre San Francisco |
| Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (August Wilson) | Director/Designer | Multi Ethnic Theatre San Francisco |
| Twelve Angry Jurors (Reginald Rose) | Director/Designer | Multi Ethnic Theatre San Francisco |
| Purlie Victorious! (Ossie Davis) | Director/Designer | Multi Ethnic Theatre San Francisco |
| Mister Shakespeare’s Magic Mirror | Director/Designer | Multi Ethnic Theatre San Francisco |
| He Who Gets Slapped (Leonid Andreyev) | Director/Designer | Multi Ethnic Theatre San Francisco |
| Body Snatchers – The Musical (Bob Lesoine) | Director/Designer | Multi Ethnic Theatre San Francisco |
| Scapino! (Mollere, Adapted by Jim Dale) | Director/Designer | Multi Ethnic Theatre San Francisco |
| The Lower Depths (Maxim Gorky) | Director/Designer | Multi Ethnic Theatre San Francisco |
| Bleacher Bums (Joe Mantegna) | Director/Designer | Multi Ethnic Theatre San Francisco |
| Golden Boy (Clifford Odets) | Director/Designer | Multi Ethnic Theatre San Francisco |
| Fences (August Wilson) | Director/Designer | Multi Ethnic Theatre San Francisco |
| The Mousetrap (Agatha Christie) | Director/Designer | Multi Ethnic Theatre 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 Theatre 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 |
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)
