King-Coit School and Children's Theatre papers, 1891-1997.

Coit, Dorothy, 1889-1976

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Dorothy Coit (1889-1976) was an educator specializing in the arts, dance, and theatre. She and partner Edith King (1884-1975) began working together on children’s theatre productions while at the Buckingham School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1922, Coit and King relocated to New York City and opened their own arts school and children’s theatre in 1923. The King-Coit School and Children’s Theatre offered arts programs for children from five to twelve, and featured acting and dance classes led ...

King, Edith Lawrence, 1884-1975

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Edith Lawrence King (1884-1975) was an American painter born in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Spending most of her childhood in Chelsea, Massachusetts and Belmont, Massachusetts she eventually moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts in order to pursue her education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Part way through her education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, however, she moved to Providence, Rhode Island in order to complete her education at Rhode Island School of Design (R...

New York public library for the performing arts

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King-Coit School and Children's Theatre

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Rodman, Ellen.

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Ellen Rodman wrote her Ph. D. dissertation on the King-Coit School and Children's Theatre of New York. The thesis, written for New York University's School of Education, Health, Nursing, and Arts, was completed in 1979. Edith King (1884-1975) and Dorothy Coit (1889-1976) founded the King-Coit School and Children's Theatre in New York City in 1923, and taught various aspects of theatrical production to young people for over thirty-five years. The King-Coit Sch...