Hallie Flanagan Davis (August 27, 1889 – June 23, 1969)[1] was an American theatrical producer and director, playwright, and author, best known as director of the Federal Theatre Project, a part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).[2]
Flanagan on CBS Radio for the Federal Theatre of the Air (1936)
Flanagan at the opening of Macbeth (April 14, 1936)
^vcencyclopedia.vassar.edu
^Bentley, Joanne (1988). Hallie Flanagan: A Life in the American Theatre ((first) ed.). New York: Alfred A. Knopf. p. 5. ISBN 0-394-57041-3.
HallieFlanagan Davis (August 27, 1889 – June 23, 1969) was an American theatrical producer and director, playwright, and author, best known as director...
The Powerhouse Theater (officially the HallieFlanagan Davis Powerhouse Theater) is a theater building on the campus of Vassar College in the town of...
artists, writers, directors, and theater workers. National director HallieFlanagan shaped the FTP into a federation of regional theaters that created...
rehearse her alarmist testimony. The committee accuses FTP director HallieFlanagan of propagating communism, making reference to her past claims and the...
economic forces of our time toward a better life for more people. — HallieFlanagan, National Director of the Federal Theatre Project. The Living Newspaper...
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distinguished actress Rose McClendon.: 59 She advised national director HallieFlanagan that the project should begin under experienced direction and selected...
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Theatre Project.: 137 That view was supported at the highest level. HallieFlanagan, national director of the Federal Theatre Project, was invited to a...
artists, writers, directors and theatre workers. Under national director HallieFlanagan it was shaped into a truly national theatre that created relevant art...
joined an experimental drama programme at Vassar College, taught by HallieFlanagan, a pioneer of "experimental theatre". Soon after, Miller left home...
1931) and "You Have Seen the Heads" (April 1931). The former story HallieFlanagan (later director of the WPA's Federal Theatre Project) made into a popular...
constructivist genres. In the United States, the form was adapted by HallieFlanagan Davis and Morris Watson into the large-scale Living Newspapers of the...
named for Federal Theatre Project director and 1911 Grinnell graduate HallieFlanagan. The Roberts Theatre - A traditional thrust-stage theatre that seats...
stories. Under the Federal Theater Project, headed by charismatic HallieFlanagan, actresses and actors, technicians, writers and directors put on stage...
graduates Harry Hopkins '12, Chester Davis '11, Paul Appleby '13, HallieFlanagan '11, and Florence Kerr '12 became influential New Deal administrators...
were Rachel Barton Butler, George Abbott, Philip Barry, S.N. Behrman, HallieFlanagan, Hong Shen, Sidney Howard, Samuel Hume, Stanley McCandless, Eugene...
at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, under the direction of HallieFlanagan. The cast was a mixture of students and local amateurs with a physician...
graduate work in music, completing a master's degree in 1935. In 1936, HallieFlanagan appointed Graham director of the Chicago Negro Unit of the Federal...
precursor to HUAC, and gained notoriety and ridicule for enquiring of HallieFlanagan whether the English Elizabethan Era playwright Christopher Marlowe...
Margaret Barker and Mildred Natwick. In college she was a student of HallieFlanagan at the Vassar Experimental Theatre and aspired to become a Broadway...
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