EVENTS

Take Note!

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Drama

The very latest: Swaim's full-length drama, Two to Waken Him , based on the closing years of DIETRICH BONHOEFFER'S life is now scheduled for production. Save your calendar dates.

  • Nov. 3, 4, 5, and 10, 11, 12 (2010)

    To be presented at the Dallas Museum of Biblical Arts

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    Poetry Readings

    Dr. Swaim has received recent invitations for the reading of his poetry.  Most recently, on July 9th, he served as guest poet for the Annual Conference of the Poetry Society of Texas. On May 15th, he read for the Ft. Worth Poetry Society.  And, in February of 2010, he read for the Dallas Chapter of the Poetry Society of Texas.   

    Future Teaching Schedule: 

    Following the last eight years teaching graduate and undergraduate seminars at UTD,  all teaching is now for SMU (graduate seminars in the SMU Masters in Liberal Studies program).  Courses scheduled cited below.

    Summer II, 2010-- Writing the West at S.M.U.'s Taos campus. 

    Fall, 2010- Creating Poetry and The Human Experience

    Spring, 2011 -- Stories: Fact, Fiction, and Truth and The Human Experience

    *Note his teaching schedule for S.M.U. into 2012.

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    Noah in My Bedroom, was performed at The Stone Cottage in Addison .  Wonderfully well received, with extra seats brought in for one of the performances.

                                                                                        Gary Swaim now has, ready for production, a 15-20 minute comedy entitled Air, Earth, Fire, Water.  A psychotherapist, a young female stripper, a burly Russian male, and a Spanish playboy encounter each other and explore the complexities of personal relationships. . .all in the context of great passion and  great humor.  Cultures collide comically.

    Swaim's most recent full-length comedic drama, MORPHINE, was praised widely at a staged reading, to a full house, at the Dallas Hub Theater in Dallas, TX (June, 2009).

    Comments from the Audience: "An impressive dissolve from reality to impressionism."  "A magnet, pulling you in."  "Different styles were a feast  for the actors." "Reminded of Waiting for Godot.

     

    Gary Swaim's short story, DISCOMFORT, has just been anthologized in DOTS ON THE MAP: A COLLECTION OF SMALL TOWN STORIES, published by MAIN STREET RAG (May, 2009).  It is now available for purchase.  Go to the Rag's webpage for an inexpensive but satisfying read.

    Swaim's free-verse poem, "Andy's Apologia," was  published in The Penwood Review, a California publication, February 2007 and yet another poem  published by The Penwood Review in the Spring of 2008. Additionally, his poem entitled "Bossa Nova" was published  by the University of Massachusetts' publication Chest, an international journal for thoracic surgeons, April, 2009.  His short story "Discomfort" was published in an anthology, Main Street Rag, in North Carolina in May, 2009.

    Swaim's play in one-act, Noah in My Bedroom, received high plaudits in a staged reading at the Dallas Hub Theater in Dallas, TX. It is now available for performance consideration.  Additionally, his latest full-length drama, Villanelle, was given a highly-successful staged reading under the direction of award-winning director and playwright, Natalie Gaupp, at the Dallas Hub Theater in April.  Current available for performance consideration.  See synopses of both plays (and others) on this website.

    Swaim's full-length drama, Two to Waken Him, based on the life and death of DIETRICH BONHOEFFER, was originally scheduled for production at the Dallas Biblical Arts Center, April, 2006. Owing to the ravaging fire there, that production is now scheduled for late spring or the early summer of 2010, upon the opening of the new Center.  Watch this site for production rescheduling.

    Most recently,Two to Waken Him, was presented as a Readers' Theatre performance at the Woodhaven Presbyterian Church in the Dallas area with great success, owing to his extraordinary Director and actors, most of whom have performed at major Dallas theatres.


    Teaching Schedule

    Teaching (Summer II, 2010) S.M.U. Campus in Taos, Writing the West

    Teaching (Fall, 2010) S.M.U., Creating Poetry Wed 6:30-9:20

    Teaching (Fall, 2010) S.M.U., The Human Experience Thu 6:30-9:20

    Teaching (Spring, 2011) S.M.U., Stories: Fact, Fiction, and Truth TBA

    Teaching (Spring, 2011) S.M.U., The Human Experience   TBA

    Teaching (Summer II, 2011) S.M.U., Campus in Taos, Writing in Nature

    Teaching (Fall, 2011) S.M.U., Reading and Writing Poetry   TBA

    Teaching (Fall, 2011) S.M.U., The Human Experience  TBA

    Teaching (Spring, 2012) S.M.U., Creating the Stage Play  TBA

    Teaching (Spring, 2012) S.M.U., The Human Experience