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Perhaps best known for her Broadway and international smash hit _Runaways_ , **Elizabeth Swados** (1951-2016) composed, wrote and directed for over thirty years. Some of her works include the Obie Award-winning _Trilogy_ at La MaMa, _Alice at the Palace_ with Meryl Streep at the New York Shakespeare Theater Festival and _Groundhog_ , which was optioned by Milos Forman for a film. Her work has been performed on Broadway, off-Broadway, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Carnegie Hall, and locations all over the world. Swados created issue-oriented theater with young people for her entire career. She published novels, non-fiction books, and children's books to great acclaim and received a Ken Book Award as well as a New York Public Library Award for _My Depression: A Picture Book_ (Seven Stories Press, 2015). _Walking the Dog_ was her last book. Other awards include five Tony nominations, three Obie Awards, Guggenheim Fellowship, Ford Grant, Helen Hayes Award, Lila Acheson Wallace Grant, PEN Citation, and others.