Frank Alonzo McMullan papers 1939-1976

Jackson, Barry, 1879-1960

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Sir Barry Jackson was the owner and founder of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. He had formed an amateur company called the Pilgrim Players, the success of which led to the creation of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1913. This was the first purpose built repertory theatre and was home to the Birmingham Repertory Company. Jackson's Birmingham Rep had a wide repertoire, including innovative modern dress Shakespeare, Greek drama, and modern experimental drama. Many of the plays transferred to...

Nicoll, Allardyce, 1894-1976

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Allardyce Nicoll was a literary scholar, theatre historian, and university teacher. He was born in Glasgow, educated at Stirling High School and Glasgow University, where he was a G.A. Clark scholar in English. He was appointed in 1920 as a lecturer in English at King's College, University of London, and was promoted quickly to the Chair of English at East London College, University of London, in 1924, at age thirty. From 1933 to 1945, he was a professor of the history of drama and dramatic crit...

Crainford, Leonard.

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Yale University. Dept. of Drama.

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Yale School of Drama

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In 1924, Yale established the first department of drama in the country with a generous contribution from Edward S. Harkness (B.A. 1897). As part of the School of Fine Arts, the Department of Drama offered a Master of Fine Arts in Drama, first conferred in 1931. The department was headed by George Pierce Baker, formerly of the well-known English "47 Workshop" at Harvard. By vote of the Yale Corporation in 1955, the Department of Drama separated from the School of Fine Arts and became the Yale Sch...

Brook, Peter Peter Nigel

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McMullan, Frank, 1907-1987

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Frank Alonzo McMullan was born in Jonesboro, Georgia on October 12, 1907. He received a B.A. from the University of Georgia in 1928, the LL.B. from the Atlanta Law School in 1930, and the M.F.A. in drama from Yale University in 1934. McMullan was on the faculty of Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri from 1934 to 1936 and was on the Yale drama faculty from 1936 to 1965. Throughout his career he guest directed and taught at numerous professional and education theatres in the United States and a...