Dan Swern is the co-founder and producing director of New Jersey's coLAB Arts, a freelance director and producer, and lecturer on Creative Engagement at Rutgers University's School of Communications and Information and Mason Gross School of the Arts-Department of Dance.
Dan Swern is a creator/director/designer of off-Broadway’s Shake & Bake Love’s Labour’s Lost, and is the co-founder and producing director for coLAB Arts in New Brunswick, NJ, engaging artists, social advocates, and communities to create transformative new work. For coLAB Arts, current verbatim theater projects include two collaborations with Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg: Life, Death, Life Again: Children sentenced to die in prison and Banished: Children on the sex offender registry, and the hybrid theater-journalism project 37 Voices, based on interviews with New Jersey’s economically vulnerable. Other Shakespeare projects have included Romeo and Juliet / Romeo y Julieta, a bilingual English/Spanish production for coLAB Arts, and an adaptation of Merchant of Venice for two actors at Franklin Stage Company. Swern is the general manager for the Obie Award-winning company, The Secret City. Swern is a proud graduate of Rutgers University where he is a lecturer on Creative Engagement for the School of Communications and Information, and Mason Gross School of the Arts - Department of Dance.
