{"id":6183,"date":"2017-12-28T22:22:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T22:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=6183"},"modified":"2026-05-26T11:23:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:23:27","slug":"richard-sewell-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=6183","title":{"rendered":"Richard Sewell &#8212; author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"m_-8474290544788801453m_4325103463939901218gmail-MsoNormal\"><strong>RICHARD C. SEWELL<\/strong> grew up among artists in rural Maine.\u00a0 After Bard College and the Army Language School (Russian), he taught high school, directed, acted, wrote, wandered&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0 The production of his dance-play, <i>Winter Crane<\/i>, at the University of Wisconsin, 1968, led to the co-founding (with Robert Joyce) of The Theater At Monmouth, a union classical rep company in 1970.\u00a0 It also led, indirectly, to a professorship at Colby College, beginning 1974.\u00a0 TAM and Colby, into this century, continued to be his main workplaces, as actor, director, and teaching theater generalist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-8474290544788801453m_4325103463939901218gmail-MsoNormal\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 His <i>Wat Tyler<\/i> was produced by Nathan LeGrand at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in SC, 1988.\u00a0 <i>Winter Crane\u2019s<\/i> professional premier was at the Fountain Theater in Los Angeles, 1990, and his adaptation of Lessing\u2019s <i>Nathan The Wise<\/i> opened at NYC\u2019s fine Pearl Theater in 2002 and was revived there 2008-09.\u00a0 His playful verse adaptation of Calderon\u2019s <i>Phantom Lady<\/i> had a staged reading at The National Shakespeare Theater in DC in 2007 as part of their Re-Discovery Series.\u00a0 <i>The<\/i> <i>Ruckus at Machias<\/i>, <i>Correro\u2019s Masks<\/i>, <i>In Divisiblunder<\/i>, <i>A Day With Darkness<\/i> and numerous one-acts have won awards.\u00a0 His political one-act, <i>The Antigone In Warsaw<\/i>,\u00a0 is available from Baker\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-8474290544788801453m_4325103463939901218gmail-MsoNormal\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He and actress Kim Gordon have been married almost 40 busy years and live in Portland, Maine, where the theater scene thrives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>PLAYS PUBLISHED:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=6168\"><strong>The Ruckus At Machias<\/strong><\/a> (Leicester Bay)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=7725\"><strong>Elektra<\/strong><\/a> (Leicester Bay)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Antigone In Warsaw<\/strong> (Samuel French)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>OTHER PLAYS:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nathan The Wise<\/strong> (adapted from the play by Lessing)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mischief At Rimul<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Winter Crane<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Wat Tyler<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Fishtank Song<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Masks of Rioclora<\/strong> (Correro&#8217;s Masks)<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Day With Darkness (The Maroni Notebook)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mutineers (The Precedent)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In Divisiblunder<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Phantom Lady<\/strong> (adapted from Calderon)<\/li>\n<li><strong>EarthBust &#8211; The Game<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PUBLISHED BOOKS:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>In The Theatre of Dionysos<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/mcfarlandbooks.com\/product\/in-the-theatre-of-dionysos\/\">McFarland Publishers<\/a>)<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"tab-book-reviews\" class=\"accordion-content\">\n<p>\u201cReading [this book] is like sitting down to a leisurely, open-ended chat\u2014probably over a glass or two of scotch\u2014with one of those passionate, marvelously well-informed, creative and freewheeling thinkers who manages also to be charming. There are insights here that I can\u2019t wait to put to use in my next directing project, and enthusiasm here that rejuvenates the reader for the daily business of living a good life and\/or doing good theatre.\u201d\u2014Shepard Sobel, Artistic Director, The Pearl Theatre Company, Inc.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sargon <\/strong><em>(Historical Fiction)<\/em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Moon and the Luckchaser <\/strong><em>(Speculative Fiction)<\/em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Brother and the River Seduced<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Taking Shakespeare&#8217;s Word For It<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography and play listing for a Maine Author<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[708],"tags":[336],"class_list":["post-6183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-author-creator","tag-maine-author-creators"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SewellRichardAUTHOR-e1666786979573.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6fXeh-1BJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6183"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22868,"href":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6183\/revisions\/22868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}