MULTI ETHNIC THEATER
MET is a project of Theater Residencies, Incorporated (TRI ), a California non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation.
DIRECTOR'S RESUME

    LEWIS CAMPBELL is Artistic Director, Executive Director, and Stage Designer of Multi Ethnic Theater.  Over the past
    twenty years he directed and designed twenty MET productions.   This entire web site  (browse the buttons above)  serves
    as a detailed resume of those twenty years.  Before that he directed and designed over one hundred productions as a high
    school theater teacher.   His formal education, his work as a teacher, and his work with MET and other theater companies
    in various capacities including acting is detailed in the supplementary resume below.
LEWIS CAMPBELL

171 Maynard Street
San Francisco, CA 94112
(415) 333-6389

lewiscampbell@sbcglobal.net
Height:     5 ft.  11 in.

Weight:    200 lbs

Hair:    graying brown

Ages:    50 - 100
ACTING EXPERIENCE
(most recent first)
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
(Stephen Adly Guirgis)
 Judge Littlefield and
Caiaphas the Elder
Custom Made Theatre, San Francisco
Night of the Iguana   (Tennessee Williams)
 Nonno, the old poet
 Berkeley Ensemble Theatre
Finding the Sun   (Edward Albee)
 Old Man Henden
 Custom Made Theatre, San Francisco
Mr. Shakespeare's Magic Mirror
 Ensemble
 Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
Macbeth  (Shakespeare)
 Seyton
 The Julian Theater, San Francisco
Hughie   (Eugene O’Neill)
 Erie Smith
 New Center Players, San Francisco
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf   (Albee)
 George
 Menlo Park Players Guild
The Bald Soprano   (Ionesco)
 Mr. Martin
 City Lights Theater, San Francisco
The Lower Depths   (Gorky)
 Kostylyev
 Playhouse Repertory, San Francisco
Enrico IV   (Pirandello)
 Enrico
 Playhouse Repertory, San Francisco
Brecht on Brecht   (Bertolt Brecht)
 Actor
 Playhouse Repertory, San Francisco
The Crucible   (Arthur Miller)
 Judge Danforth
 San Francisco State University
The White Devil  (Webster)
 Cardinal Monticelso
 San Francisco State University
And People All Around  (George Sklar)
 KKK Grand Wizard
 San Francisco State University
The Winter's Tale   (Shakespeare)
 Time
 San Francisco State University
DIRECTING AND TECHNICAL THEATRE EXPERIENCE
(most recent first)
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black   (Lorraine Hansberry)
 Director/Designer
 Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
Gem of the Ocean   (August Wilson)
 Director/Designer
 Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
The Exception and the Rule  (Bertolt Brecht)
 Director/Designer
 Custom Made Theatre, San Francisco
When You Comin’ Back Red Ryder   (Mark Medoff)
 Director/Designer
 Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
Sizwe Banzi is Dead & The Island   (Athol Fugard)
 Director/Designer
 Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
The Time of Your Life   (Willaim Saroyan)
 Director/Designer
 Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
Master Harold and the Boys   (Athol Fugard)
 Director/Designer
 Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone   (August Wilson)
 Director/Designer
 Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
Twelve Angry Jurors   (Reginald Rose)
 Director/Designer
 Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
Purlie Victorious!   (Ossie Davis)
 Director/Designer
 Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
Mister Shakespeare’s Magic Mirror
 Director/Designer
 Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
He Who Gets Slapped   (Leonid Andreyev)
 Director/Designer
 Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
Body Snatchers – The Musical   (Bob Lesoine)
 Director/Designer
 Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
Scapino!   (Moliere, adapted by Jim Dale))
 Director/Designer
 Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
The Lower Depths   (Maxim Gorky)
 Director/Designer
 Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
Bleacher Bums   (Joe Mantegna)
 Director/Designer
 Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
Golden Boy   (Clifford Odets)
 Director/Designer
 Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
Fences  (August Wilson)
 Director/Designer
 Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
The Mousetrap   (Agatha Christie)
 Director/Designer
 Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
Comedy of Errors   (Shakespeare)
 Assistant Director
 Marin Shakespeare Festival
Summer Shakespeare Repertory
 Makeup Designer
 Marin Shakespeare Festival
Sarajevo Voices and Euripides' The Trojan Women
 Director/Designer
 Multi Ethnic Theater, San Francisco
All My Sons   (Arthur Miller)
 Director/Designer
 San Francisco State University
My Three Angels   (Samuel and Bella Spewack)
 Director/Designer
 Seventh Army Repertory, Germany
Stalag 17   (Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski)
 Director/Designer
 Seventh Army Repertory, Germany
San Francisco Unified School District
At Mission High School established Multi Ethnic Theater.  Later, with a California Arts Council grant, developed  The Center for
Theater Training (CTT), a city-wide program for students from various high schools.  The Center became the Actor Training
Program at School of the Arts (SOTA) when that alternative high school was formed.  Taught full time in the Unified School District
until retirement in 1993 to form and become Artistic Director of Multi Ethnic Theater.

Santa Maria High School  (Theater)

San Luis Obispo High School  (English and Drama)

San Francisco State University  (Graduate Assistant in Stage Makeup)

Petaluma High School  (English and Drama)
Directed, designed and built over one-hundred productions during a 35 year teaching career.  
Designed and installed over 15 working theaters in various found spaces.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
(most recent first)
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
BA Theater - San Jose State University 1955
General Secondary Credential (English, Speech, and Drama) - San Jose State 1959
Special Credential in Speech Therapy and Rehabilitation of the Hard of Hearing - 1959
Post-Graduate Courses Leading to an MA in Theater - San Francisco State - 1962-1968
AVAILABLE FOR PRIVATE COACHING
Reasonable Rates

Audition preparation and repertoire building.

Voice and Speech Improvement

Script Analysis and Interpretation

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