| Swicord attended elementary schools in Barcelona, Spain and Miami, Florida before her father, who worked in naval intelligence, retired and became a contractor in the resort area of Panama City Beach, Florida. She majored in English and theater at Florida State University, via an academic scholarship, and also worked on the schools alternative daily newspaper. After graduation, she held a variety of jobs. She was a camera operator in television news, a writer/producer of short films for the State of Florida and an advertising copywriter for IBM in New York. While in New York, she wrote "Last Days at the Dixie Girl Cafe," for some fellow graduates of her alma mater who were setting up a theatre company. The play received good notices and eventually moved to off-Broadway. She also wrote "Criminal Minds" which has been performed on stages in New York and Los Angeles.
Swicord serves on the Board of Trustees of the Wildwood School, heading the school's Education Committee. Recently, she was honored with a Mover and Shaker Award from the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research.
Swicord wrote the scripts for Shag which starred Bridget Fonda and You Ruined My Life which was shown as a movie-of-the-week on CBS. She wrote and directed the recent film version of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women starring Winona Ryder and Susan Sarandon. Swicord and her husband, Nicholas Kazan, wrote the screenplay for Matilda based on the novel by Roald Dahl. Visitor Comments: |
