Rose McClendon (August 27, 1884 – July 12, 1936) was a leading African-American Broadway actress of the 1920s. A founder of the Negro People's Theatre, she guided the creation of the Federal Theatre Project's African American theatre units nationwide and briefly co-directed the New York Negro Theater Unit.
RoseMcClendon (August 27, 1884 – July 12, 1936) was a leading African-American Broadway actress of the 1920s. A founder of the Negro People's Theatre...
physiologist Lloyd McClendon (born 1959), American baseball player and manager Reiley McClendon (born 1990), American actor RoseMcClendon (1884–1936), African...
Theatre Project was formed in 1935 under the distinguished actress RoseMcClendon.: 59 She advised national director Hallie Flanagan that the project...
New York City thereafter to study acting with the WPA Theater and the RoseMcClendon Players. She was a founding member of the American Negro Theater in...
School of General Studies. His acting career began in 1939 with the RoseMcClendon Players in Harlem. During World War II, Davis served in the United States...
she is known for creating the character of Bess, and appeared with RoseMcClendon and Frank H. Wilson. That same year, she played a lead role in Ernest...
Suitcase Theater, The Negro Playwrights, American Negro Theater, and the RoseMcClendon Players. The Apollo Theater opened on 125th Street on January 26, 1934...
The Negro Theatre Unit of the Federal Theatre Project was headed by RoseMcClendon, a well-known black actress, and Houseman, a theatre producer. Houseman...
at the Provincetown Playhouse in a cast led by Juano Hernandez and RoseMcClendon. In Irving Berlin's 1933 musical, As Thousands Cheer, Ethel Waters sang...
Works Progress Administration. RoseMcClendon was originally cast for her part, but Thomas took the role after McClendon became critically ill. Thomas's...
Amsterdam. 26 March 1960. African American musical theater RoseMcClendon Evelyn Ellis McGinty, Doris Evans, '"As Large As She Can Make It": The Role...
at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center The RoseMcClendon Memorial Collection of Photographs of Celebrated Negroes by Carl Van...
The New York Magazine Program. Porgy, week beginning July 2, 1928. "RoseMcClendon Scrapbooks". Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New...
Caterina Jarboro Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones Sara Martin RoseMcClendon Viola McCoy Florence Mills Ma Rainey Bessie Smith Mamie Smith Trixie Smith...
the Harlem chapter of the FTP be led by an African American artist. RoseMcClendon, an established actor at the time, publicly argued against this proposal...
during the play's debut in 1964. She was also awarded in 2006, The RoseMcClendon Trailblazer Award from the Classical Theatre of Harlem. Billie Allen...
(1911–1961) was an American vocalist and actress. She co-founded the RoseMcClendon Players with her husband, Dick Campbell and was one of the leading black...
the Lafayette Players: Edna Morton, Lawrence Chenault, Canada Lee, RoseMcClendon, Oscar Micheaux, Lionel Monagas, Clarence Muse, and Charles S. Gilpin...
Row, which Hill put into rehearsal after it had done so well with the RoseMcClendon Players, who also held performances in Harlem. On Strivers' Row ran...
Dirges" Paupaulekejo (with Georgia Douglas Johnson) Tax Fare (with RoseMcClendon) Gentleman Jigger (2008) Half High (2023) As one of the last survivors...
appeared in a show titled Black on the Great White Way: The Story of RoseMcClendon. Burrows was to be [clarification needed] a panelist in the 2000–2001...
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