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Federal Theater provided employment for actors, directors, writers, and scene designers (1935–1939). [Am. Hist.: NCE, 932] See : Theater |
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Between 1930 and 1935 Johnson submitted several plays to the newly organized Federal Theatre Project (FTP), and in 1938 she contributed her playwriting skills to the NAACP's anti-lynching campaign. Will Geer, the Theatricum's founder and Ellen Geer's father, was in Orson Welles' famed Federal Theatre Project production of ``Cradle'' in 1937, an event that - as film director Tim Robbins demonstrated - was far more interesting than the product Blitzstein actually put on stage. This incendiary musical play, with its bare-bones staging, pro-worker sentiments, and thumb-nosing approach to musical scoring, caught the unionist spirit of the day as it precipitated the downfall of the Federal Theatre Project amid suspicion of communist propagandizing. |
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