Ken Schwartz

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ken Schwartz
Occupation	Theatre Director
Date Of Birth	Dec 3, 1969(1969-12-03)
Age	55
Birthplace	Halifax
Country	Canada
Birth City	Halifax
Horoscope	Aquarius

Ken Schwartz Biography

Ken Schwartz is one of the most popular and richest Theatre Director who was born on December 3, 1969 in Halifax, Halifax, Canada. Ken Schwartz (born December 3, 1969 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian theatre director, playwright and arts activist.

Two Planks and a Passion Theatre was initially founded and dedicated to touring new Canadian Plays with strong roles for women throughout Nova Scotia and Canada with a focus on rural communities. Schwartz and O’Neill were particularly interested in using Nova Scotian history and events to create new drama, “a theatre rooted in emotional realism and community experience”. The first production was a Nova Scotian premiere of Daniel MacIvor’s See Bob Run, a one-woman show starring O’Neill and directed by Schwartz. It began at the Atlantic Fringe Festival then toured to Wolfville. The company continued to develop its touring activity with other Nova Scotian premieres such as Linda Griffiths The Darling Family which was their first tour outside of NS, to Charlottetown PEI. Schwartz and O’Neill continued to work toward developing new productions and in 1993 created The Butterbox Babies, based on the best- selling book by Bette Cahill.

Schwartz was involved in arts advocacy both on a personal and organizational level from the beginning of his Nova Scotian career. He was on the founding board of the Nova Scotia Professional Theatre Alliance (now Theatre Nova Scotia) and has continued to support that organization as a board, panel and jury member since 1995.

His play (co-written with Chris O’Neill) of Westray: the Long Way Home, was published in 1995 and then republished by Talonbooks in the early 21st century.

In 1992 they returned to Nova Scotia after a five-year absence and settled in Sheffield Mills, a hamlet close to Wolfville, surrounded by fields and farms. Using the Sheffield Mills community hall for their rehearsal base, Schwartz and O’Neill incorporated Two Planks and a Passion Theatre Association as a non-profit within the province of Nova Scotia.

Ken Schwartz Net Worth

Ken Schwartz is one of the richest Theatre Director from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ken Schwartz 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Schwartz was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, graduating from the Halifax Grammar School in 1987, then moving to Montreal to study at the National Theatre School in 1987. He was accepted to the acting, technical theatre and directing sections of the conservatory, graduating from Technical Production in 1990 and from the Directing Section in 1992. After an internship year in Ireland and Northern Ireland, he returned to NS to start Two Planks and a Passion Theatre with his wife, Chris O’Neill. They settled in the Annapolis Valley and have three children.

In the late 1990s, Schwartz was nominated to the newly formed arms length Nova Scotian Arts Council, a group legislated by the province to distribute funds to artists through peer juries. He served on the founding board of the Council for three years.

Dean Jobb, Calculated Risk: Greed, Politics and the Westray Tragedy (Nimbus Publishing, 1994) Chris O’Neill, Ken Schwartz, Westray: The Long Way Home (Talonbooks)

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In 2008 he was nominated for Best Director at the NS professional theatre Awards (The Merritt Awards) and in 2009 he won that award for his direction of Our Town while also winning Outstanding Production for that show. In 2009 he was also awarded the Established award by the NS Government and in 2002, Schwartz received the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal for his service to the community. In 2010 Schwartz’s production of Rockbound, a musical written by Allen Cole and based on the novel by Frank Parker Day was nominated for 7 professional theatre Awards, and took home 5 Merritt Awards, including Best New Play, Best Musical Score, Best Director for Ken Schwartz, and Best Production.

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In 2010 Schwartz was accepted to the Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Text at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario and took a sabbatical from Two Planks to complete this program, which included assistant directing J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan under British director Tim Carroll. In 2013 he returned to Stratford for a second workshop, this time assisting Tim Carroll on Romeo and Juliet.