In 2010 Schwartz was accepted to the Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Text at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario and took a sabbatical from Two Planks to complete this program, which included assistant directing J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan under British director Tim Carroll [REF].
In 2013 he directed Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello for the Dalhousie Theatre Department, and narrated the readings for the Kings College Chapel Choir Annual Christmas tour, under Paul Halley's direction.