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Clare Tree Major (1880 – 10 October 1954) was a stage director, playwright, producer of children's theater, and actress. She first acted in London, but in 1914 she came to New York to perform with the
'The Traveling Plays of Clare Tree Major'' at ERIC
{{DEFAULTSORT:Major, Clare Tree 1880 births 1954 deaths 20th-century British actresses British stage actresses British dramatists and playwrights British theatre directors
Clare Tree Major (1880 – 10 October 1954) was a stage director, playwright, producer of children's theater, and actress. She first acted in London, but in 1914 she came to New York to perform with the Washington Square Players
The Washington Square Players (WSP) was a theatre troupe and production company that existed from 1915 to 1918 in Manhattan, New York City. It started as a semi-amateur Little Theatre then matured into a Repertory theatre with its own tourin ...
. She was the first British actress to tour America from coast to coast. From the 1920s on she worked exclusively on theater for children, writing plays and sending professional actors on tour to perform them.
Biography
She was born in 1880 in England. She migrated to the United States in 1914. In 1924 she started the Children's Theatre of New York. In 1925 she produced the play '' The Little Poor Man''. She founded the Clare Tree Major Theatre Company in 1927. She died on 10 October 1954 in Manhattan.Legacy
The Clare Tree Major papers, 1912-1954, are held in theNew York Public Library
The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City. With nearly 53 million items and 92 locations, the New York Public Library is the second largest public library in the United States (behind the Library of Congress ...
.
References
External links
* *'The Traveling Plays of Clare Tree Major'' at ERIC
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