Chorpenning, Charlotte B. (Charlotte Barrows)

Charlotte Barrows Chorpenning, theatre for young audiences playwright, stage director, researcher and educator was born in 1872. She was educated at Iowa Agricultural College and Cornell University, from which she received a Bachelor of Letters degree in 1894. Following graduation she taught high school in Springfield, Ohio and Denver, Colorado and English at the Normal School in Winona, Minnesota.

After writing her first play, Between the Lines in 1912, Chorpenning was accepted into George Pierce Baker's playwriting class at Harvard (Radcliffe College) in anticipation of a career as a playwright for adults. When Chorpenning returned to teaching at Winona she served as a playwright-in-residence for community theatres in the area. Her article, Putting on a Community Play in the Quarterly Journal of Speech Education in 1919, led to her national prominence and requests for her services throughout the United States.

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