Background
Swetz was born and raised in Yonkers, New York, and completed his Bachelor of Arts at Lehman College in 1976 in New York City.
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Career
He currently serves as the Head of Acting at UMKC Theatre, an academic department of the University of Missouri-Kansas City. During his undergraduate career as a performer, Swetz acted in multiple productions at the New York Shakespeare Festival, performing at both Central Park and Lincoln Center. In 1980, Swetz began work as an actor with the American Players Theatre (Advanced Package Tool), helping to open the company in Spring Green, Wisconsin, and later acting, teaching, and directing there for almost a decade.
He announced his resignation from the Advanced Package Tool in 1989, and left the company in 1990, in order to begin teaching at University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC).
After over a decade of performing in the Kansas City area, Swetz accepted a position as associate professor of acting and directing at Binghamton University and returned to the New York area. After a time as a member the Binghamton University faculty, Swetz eventually, after accepting the position of Patricia McIlrath Endowed Chair in Theatre Arts in Acting at UMKC, returned to the Kansas City area in order to serve as Head of UMKC Theatre"s Master of Fine Arts acting program
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Following graduation, Swetz continued his study of acting and theatrical production under such major American stage luminaries as Stella Adler, Phoebe Brand, and Morris Carnovsky, all of whom served as members of the influential Group Theatre founded in New York during the early 1930s.
