David Schweizer has been developing and directing original theater, opera, and performance work both nationally and internationally for nearly forty years now—beginning with his notorious New York debut inaugurating the Joseph Papp regime at Lincoln Center with Troilus and Cressida in 1974. He has directed in every major American regional theater and extensively in New York City with new plays and musical works such as Charles Mee’s Wintertime at Second Stage, Lisa Loomer’s The Waiting Room at the Vineyard Theater, and Rinde Eckert’s Horizon at New York Theater Workshop. More recently, he has directed in such opera theaters as the Boston Lyric Opera (Emperor of Atlantis, Verdi’s Macbetto), Glimmerglass Festival (Stephen Hartke’s The Greater Good), New York City Opera at Lincoln Center (Sir Richard Rodney Bennett’s The Mines of Sulphur), Long Beach Opera (Powder Her Face, La Perichole, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat), and New York’s Gotham Opera (Albert Herring). He has worked with many notable solo/performance artists including of course John Fleck but also Ann Magnuson, Marga Gomez, Rachel Rosenthal, Sandra Tsing Loh, and most recently with Mike Albo (My Price Point at Performance Space 122), whose new piece The Junket will be presented next fall at Dixon Place. Schweizer has collaborated with such pivotal American experimental theater companies as Mabou Mines (It’s a Man’s World), Theater X (A History of Sexuality), and his own Modern Artists Company (Plato’s Symposium). His Obie Award–winning production of Rinde Eckert’s And God Created Great Whales was revived last season off Broadway to renewed acclaim, and his production of Tennessee Williams’s In Masks Outrageous and Austere was another noteworthy event in New York last season. Currently, his off-Broadway hit, Mark Nadler’s I’m a Stranger Here Myself has been repeatedly extended at the York Theater. Upcoming is Verdi’s Giovanna D’arco at Chicago Opera Theater.