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Biography of Hallie Flanagan
Name: Hallie Flanagan
Birth Date: August 27, 1890
Death Date: 1969
Place of Birth: South Dakota, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: director, playwright, educator
Hallie Flanagan
Hallie Flanagan (1890-1969) was a director, playwright, and educator who headed the Federal Theater Project, America's first national, federally-funded theater organization, from 1935 to 1939.Born in South Dakota on August 27, 1890, and raised in Iowa, Hallie Flanagan attended Grinnell College where she subsequently taught drama. She first gained notice as a playwright when she won a regional contest sponsored by the Des Moines Little Theatre Society with her play The Curtain. Her successful productions at Grinnell College eventually led her in 1923 to a position as production assistant in Professor George Pierce Baker's creative Workshop 47 at Harvard University, where she also completed a Master's degree. Returning to Grinnell, she directed for its experimental theater. Her productions there continued to win her recognition as an innovative director and led to her appointment as professor of drama and director of the experimental theater at Vassar College in 1925. A year later she received a prestigious honor--a …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…the Federal Theater, the Congress heatedly debated the continuation of the project. The House voted to dissolve the theater; the Senate voted to maintain it. On June 30, 1939, the Federal Theater was ended by congressional action.Throughout her career Hallie Flanagan was a prolific contributor on the subject of theater to many leading American journals. She died in 1969. Associated Events United States. Works Progress Administration. Federal Theater Project, 1935-1, 9 Further Reading Besides Shifting Scenes of the Modern European Theatre (1928), Flanagan's own books on the theatre include Dynamo (1943), an account of her work with the Vassar Experimental Theater, and Arena (1940), a personal chronicle of the joys and struggles of the Federal Theater Project. Jane DeHart Mathews' The Federal Theatre 1935-1939: Plays, Relief, and Politics (1967) is an excellent study of the project's brief history as a national institution.Bentley, Joanne, Hallie Flanagan: a life in the American theatre, New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1988.
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