Guide to the Shaw Festival productions / written and compiled by Rod Christensen, Joanna Falck, Robert Hamilton, Debra McLaughlan and Amanda Tripp, additional material provided by Sue LePage and Jackie Maxwell, 2007 - study guides. 2007.

Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983

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Thomas Lanier Williams was born on March 26, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. His father, Cornelius, a salesman who was largely absent had a bad relationship with Tennessee, the second of his three children. Consequently, Tennessee was raised predominantly by his mother, Edwina, and maternal grandparents. His often strained and disturbed family life became the fodder for many of his plays. After moving to New Orleans in his late 20s, and adopting the name Tenn...

Shaw Festival Collection (University of Guelph)

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Shaw Festival Guild was organized in the early years of the Festival to assist founder, Brian Doherty with the establishment of a permanent theatre. Shaw Guild is instrumental in fundraising campaigns for the Shaw Festival. From the description of Shaw Festival Guild - by-laws, newsletters, minutes of annual meetings, members phone lists, research information for the Shaw Guild Time Capsule, corresp., financial statements for '76, etc., 1973-04. 1973-04. (University of Guelph). World...

Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950

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Born in Dublin, Ireland, on July 26, 1856, George Bernard Shaw was the only son and third and youngest child of George Carr and Lucinda Elizabeth Gurly Shaw. Though descended from landed Irish gentry, Shaw's father was unable to sustain any more than a facade of gentility. Shaw's official education consisted of being tutored by an uncle and briefly attending Protestant and Catholic day schools. At fifteen Shaw began working as a bookkeeper in a land agent's office which required him t...

Maxwell, Jackie.

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Munro, Neil, 1970-....

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LePage, Sue.

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Christensen, Rodd

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Stewart, Michael, 1929-1987

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Michael Stewart, librettist, lyricist, playwright, and novelist was born Myron Rubin on August 1, 1924 in New York City. He attended Queens College and received a Master of Fine Arts in drama from Yale in 1953. During the 1950's he contributed sketches and lyrics to revues, among them: Razzle Dazzle (at the Edison Theater), The Shoestring Revue (1955), The Littlest Revue (1956) and Shoestring '57 . He also wrote for television, most notably for Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, where he collabora...

Herman, Jerry, 1931-

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Jerry Herman (b. 1933) is a composer and lyricist of Broadway musicals. Herman writes in an easily accessible, infectiously tuneful and optimistic style with a winning combination of innocence and wit. Finding particular success in the 1960s with Hello, Dolly! and Mame, his style seemed more out-of-step during the turbulent 70s, though he and many others regard his score for Mack and Mabel (1974) as his best. He found renewed success with La cage aux folles (1983). From the descripti...

Falck, Joanna Grace, 1970-

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