RUNAWAYS
By Elizabeth Swados
With Music and Lyrics by Elizabeth Swados
Directed by Lou Moreno
UMass Amherst Theater Department
Dramaturgy by Shaila Schmidt
Set Design by Michael Cottom
Costume Design by Christina Beam
Lighting Design by Zach Molin
Sound Design by Amy Altadonna
Musical Direction by Anthony Ferreira
Production Photos by Jon Crispin
Runaways is a powerful musical that invites audiences to listen to voices that have been historically silenced. The characters were devised by Swados through workshops with runaway children of New York in the 1970’s. Using a modern setting, the UMass Theater production showed how prevalent these stories are, even forty years later.