George Cram Cook
George Cram Cook or Jig Cook was an American theatre producer, director, playwright, novelist, and poet. Cook led the founding of the Provincetown Players, the first modern American theatre company. During his sevenyear tenure with the group Cook oversaw the production of nearly onehundred new plays by fifty American playwrights. He is particularly remembered for producing the first plays of Eugene ONeill, along with those of Cooks wife Susan Glaspell, and several other noted writers.
I was born and raised in Davenport, Iowa, where my family was one of the towns oldest and most wealthy. my father, a corporate lawyer, strongly encouraged my education from a young age, while my mother instilled in me a passion for culture and the arts. I completed my bachelors degree at Harvard in 1893. He continued his studies at the University of Heidelberg in 1894 and at the University of Geneva the following year.
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