Records, 1964-1982.

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Records, 1964-1982.

Title

Records, 1964-1982.

Resource Link

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01557/catalog

Abstract

Correspondence, scripts, photographs, and clippings relating to the People's Theatre ofCambridge, Massachusetts.

Extent

13 boxes(6.5 linear ft.)

Holding Repository

Harvard Theater Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6384668

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Rosen, Judith

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Dramaturg. Judith Rosen earned a degree in history and literature from Harvard and a doctorate in British Victorian Literature at the University of California-Berkeley. She taught at UCLA and later moved to Ashland, Oregon....

Wood, Ira David, III, 1947-

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Ira David Wood III (born November 19, 1947) is an American actor, author, singer, theater director and playwright. He is the Executive Director of Theatre in the Park, a community theatre company in Raleigh, North Carolina. Wood is the father of actress Evan Rachel Wood. Wood was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and was raised in the town of Enfield, in Halifax County, North Carolina. He became Enfield's first Eagle Scout. He is a son of Bettie Lee (Winstead), a nurse, and Ira David Wood,...

Connaire, Chris

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People's Theatre (Cambridge, Mass.)

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The People's Theatre was founded in 1964 by Ruth Elder, formerly a professor of speech and drama at Tufts University. One of the most noted features of the company was its dedication to multiracial casting, a policy that was established by Elder and adopted by her successors, Chris Connaire (1967-1980) and June Judson (1980-1982). When it closed in 1982, the People's Theatre was the oldest continuously operating small theatre in the Boston area. From the description of Records, 1964...

Gerson, Tove Gertrud Mueller, 1902-1998

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Tove Gertrud (Müller) Gerson, émigré social activist, YWCA administrator, gymnastics teacher, and physical therapist, was born on September 18, 1902, in Munich, Germany, the daughter of Ellen (Dyhr) and Albert Müller. She attended a private elementary school in the village of Dachau, and went on to the Humanistisches und Realgymnasium in Munich, graduating in 1919. After spending a year in Denmark with her mother(s family, Gerson took courses at a business school, worked as a bank ...

Newman, David

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Crabtree, John

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Matson, Kate.

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Gaus, Andy

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Calender, June.

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Coates, Betty.

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Fiumedoro, Ali.

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Kramer, William, 1919-

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Bland, Shelia Rose.

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Bullins, Ed

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African American playwright Ed Bullins, who began writing plays as a political activist in the mid-1960s and was later the associate director of Harlem's New Lafayette Theatre, helped shape the revolutionary theater of black experience. "Ed Bullins." Contemporary Authors Online (reproduced in Biography Resource Center). http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC (accessed November 2009). From the guide to the It Bees Dat Way (a C...

Ely, Elissa

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Keithley, George, 1935-

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Frenkel, Lothar.

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Eubank, Jerry.

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Arent, Arthur

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Duerr, Robert G., Jr.

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Cuesta, B. de la.

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Cohn, Sidra.

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Dumas, Charles

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Fann, Ernest.

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Clarke, Andrea

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Benton, Robert

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McCleary, Oren.

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Ansara, Amy.

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Cannon, Terence

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Edelson, Rae.

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Joselovitz, Ernest A.

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Seiken, Jason.

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Macer-Story, Eugenia

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Weinstein, Larry, 1948-

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Simon, Josephine

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Soloway, Albert H.

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Gudema, Louis.

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Butcher, Agnes

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Truro, Victor.

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Locklin, Gerald

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Speeking, John.

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Mauriello, David J., 1936-

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Berman, Roberta.

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Colodny, Roby.

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Korty, Carol

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Kneeland, John.

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Vundla, Mfundi

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Janney, Peter.

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Shange, Ntozake

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Blamire, Larry

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Maas, Karen L.

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Williams, John Alfred, 1925-....

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John Alfred Williams, African-American author, journalist and academic, was born December 5, 1925, in Jackson, Mississippi. He served in the U.S. Naval Reserves as a pharmacist’s mate in the Pacific from 1943-1946, and earned degrees in English and journalism from Syracuse University. In 1960 he published his first novel, The Angry Ones ; this and subsequent novels including the best-selling The Man Who Cried I Am, explore the experiences of being a black man in America. ...

Valianti, Deborah.

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Schnessel, S. Michael

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Meister, Liza

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Roach, Lois.

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Wyatt, Elizabeth

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Witten, Matt

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Miller, Rina.

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Rosenberg, Ira.

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Freund, Philip, 1909-2007

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Philip Freund, playwright. From the description of Prince Hamlet: typescript, n.d. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 86164214 Theater historian, writer, educator. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Philip Freund graduated from Cornell in 1929. While at Cornell, he wrote for and edited a literary journal, The Columns, and after graduation, started a small publishing firm. He taught courses in creative writing, film, and entertainment an...

Carroll, George

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Stolzer, Alan

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Fraser, Genevieve Coma.

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Cohen, Elaine Ruthfield.

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Blackwell, Philip James.

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Gallant, Erskine.

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Piercy, Marge

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Sheldon, Sayre.

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Roach, Paul Rigne.

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Alfaro, Rosanna Yamagiwa

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Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro, playwright. From the description of Behind enemy lines : typescript. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122517684 ...

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980

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Sartre, Jean-Paul (1905-1980), existentialist philosopher, dramatist and novelist, author of La Nausée (1938), Huis clos (1943), and L'être et le néant (1943). From the description of Jean-Paul Sartre collection, [ca. 1950-1970]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702138367 The life of Jean-Paul Sartre, French novelist and Existentialist philosopher, has been recounted in numerous books. Of particular relevance to this collection is John Gerassi's own biographical study, Jean...

Records, 1964-1982.

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