For the month of November, the Friends of the Glen Rock Public Library Gallery welcome the art of Tony Schwab.
Tony Schwab and his wife Deborah have lived and raised their children in Teaneck since 1982. Soon they will move to San Diego, California. After inspiring high school art classes in Mamaroneck, NY where he was raised, Schwab taught himself painting starting in 1975. An appreciation of multicultural art history has been a main pursuit for 45 years and remains, each week, a significant venue for response, expression and understanding. Schwab’s work has been shown at the Brooklyn Museum, Ridgewood Art Institute, New Jersey galleries and Emerge Gallery in Saugerties, NY.
He has been a professional actor and director, writes plays, novels, essays and articles and for thirty years taught secondary school literature to students at alternative public high schools in New York and New Jersey.
Schwab is seeking producers for his new musical, Zoom, written in collaboration with composer David Gopoian of Teaneck. The production presents five diverse women who were fast friends in 1968 but have not seen each other since, and then find themselves on a Zoom in 2020 as Covid-19 grips the world. They cannot meet but strive to interpret the phenomenon of Baby Boomers aging, to rediscover their love and face their old group dynamic as the world and life in their own homes rage around them.
Mr. Schwab’s chapters on Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin appear in the recent books, The Theological Dickens and The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Scandals.
